Album and Image Gallery Plus Lightbox <= 2.1.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Plugin's Shortcode
Vulnerability Description
The Album and Image Gallery plus Lightbox plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's `aigpl-gallery-album` shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Impact Analysis
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Remediation
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Credits & Attribution
The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:
- Muhammad Yudha - DJ
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/47cd99ef-d9b0-4be3-8dc4-d7dd56f37c1c?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/album-and-image-gallery-plus-lightbox/tags/2.1.6/includes/shortcode/aigpl-gallery-album.php#L18
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/album-and-image-gallery-plus-lightbox/tags/2.1.6/templates/album/design-1.php#L1
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/album-and-image-gallery-plus-lightbox/tags/2.1.6/templates/album/design-1.php#L38
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3426388%40album-and-image-gallery-plus-lightbox&new=3426388%40album-and-image-gallery-plus-lightbox&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
Affected Vendor
essentialplugin
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