CVE-2024-2744 (GCVE-0-2024-2744)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-17 06:00 – Updated: 2025-03-27 16:35
VLAI?
Title
Nextgen Gallery < 3.59.1 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Summary
The NextGEN Gallery WordPress plugin before 3.59.1 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
Assigner
References
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a5579c15-50ba-46… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown NextGEN Gallery Affected: 0 , < 3.59.1 (semver)
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Credits
Dmitrii Ignatyev WPScan
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