CVE-2024-12696
CVSS 3.1 Score 6.4 of 10 (medium)
Details
Published Jan 18, 2025
CWE ID 79
Summary
CVE-2024-12696 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Picture Gallery – Frontend Image Uploads plugin for WordPress in versions up to 1.5.22. This issue arises due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes within the videowhisper_picture_upload_guest shortcode. Consequently, authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher can inject malicious web scripts, which will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page, posing a significant security risk.
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