NextGEN Gallery Plugin Vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting Attacks
CVE-2024-2744

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Nextgen Gallery
Vendor
CVE Published:
17 May 2024

Badges

👾 Exploit Exists🟡 Public PoC

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

Affected Version(s)

NextGEN Gallery 0 < 3.59.1

Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)

PoC code is written by security researchers to demonstrate the vulnerability can be exploited. PoC code is also a key component for weaponization which could lead to ransomware.

CVE-2024-2744 - Proof of Concept

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a5579c15-50ba-4618-95e4-...
exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description

Timeline

  • 🟡

    Public PoC available

  • 👾

    Exploit known to exist

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Dmitrii Ignatyev
WPScan
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