Photo Gallery by 10Web <= 1.6.8 - Authenticated (Admin+) Cross-Site Scripting

2022-07-01 00:00
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Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.6.9
Affected Plugin
Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery
Affected Version
<= 1.6.8
CVSS
5.5Medium
Weakness type
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE
CVE pending
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At a glance

This record tracks a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Photo Gallery by 10Web WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.6.8. It carries a CVSS score of 5.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Admin level or above. The issue is fixed in version 1.6.9; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed July 2022.

Vulnerability Overview

The Photo Gallery by 10Web plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via several parameters in versions up to, and including, 1.6.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Reaching this weakness in Photo Gallery by 10Web <= 1.6.8 takes an account at Admin level or above. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.

Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For Photo Gallery by 10Web the fix is 1.6.9: builds <= 1.6.8 are affected, anything from 1.6.9 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.6.9, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

An attacker needs Admin access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Photo Gallery by 10Web 1.6.9 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8b271f2f-d765-4d2d-bb0d-f8425ebc64ca

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