CVE-2025-8726

WP Photo Album Plus <= 9.0.11.006 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via wppa_user_upload

2025-10-03 14:09
zer0gh0st

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 9.0.11.007
Affected Plugin
WP Photo Album Plus
Affected Version
<= 9.0.11.006
CVSS
5.4Medium
Weakness type
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE
CVE-2025-8726
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At a glance

CVE-2025-8726 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the WP Photo Album Plus WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 9.0.11.006. It carries a CVSS score of 5.4 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. The issue is fixed in version 9.0.11.007; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2025, reported by zer0gh0st.

Vulnerability Overview

The WP Photo Album Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 9.0.11.006 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the wppa_user_upload function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in the photo album descriptions that execute in a victim's browser.

Technical Analysis

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

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

Reaching this weakness in WP Photo Album Plus <= 9.0.11.006 takes an account at Subscriber 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 WP Photo Album Plus the fix is 9.0.11.007: builds <= 9.0.11.006 are affected, anything from 9.0.11.007 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 9.0.11.007, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

An attacker needs Subscriber 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: WP Photo Album Plus 9.0.11.007 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8726https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/575b11a3-9fa4-4ee0-8f19-7d53e6c1785fhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8726

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