Balbooa Gallery Component up to 2.4.0 on Joomla Gallery Item cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Balbooa Gallery Component up to 2.4.0 on Joomla and classified as problematic. This affects an unknown part of the component Gallery Item Handler. This manipulation causes cross site scripting. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-49486. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Balbooa Gallery Component up to 2.4.0 on Joomla. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the component Gallery Item Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

A stored XSS vulnerability in the Balbooa Gallery plugin 1.0.0-2.4.0 for Joomla allows privileged users to store malicious scripts in gallery items.

The weakness was shared by Kamil Szczurowski and Robert Kruczek. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-49486 since 06/05/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-21873). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-79 / CWE-94 / CWE-74
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

06/05/2025 CVE reserved
07/18/2025 +43 days Advisory disclosed
07/18/2025 +0 days VulDB entry created
07/23/2025 +4 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Researcher: Kamil Szczurowski, Robert Kruczek
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2025-49486 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-49486
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-316879
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Entryinfo

Created: 07/18/2025 13:50
Updated: 07/23/2025 01:48
Changes: 07/18/2025 13:50 (66), 07/18/2025 14:04 (1), 07/23/2025 01:48 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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