Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Paged Gallery Plugin for WordPress

CVE-2025-5686

What is CVE-2025-5686?

The Paged Gallery plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping of user-supplied attributes within the 'gallery' shortcode. This vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 0.7, allowing authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions or higher to inject malicious web scripts. These scripts execute whenever a user accesses an affected page, potentially compromising user data and website security. It is crucial for users of the Paged Gallery plugin to upgrade to the latest version and implement security best practices to mitigate this vulnerability.

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