PT-2022-18642 · WordPress · Contest Gallery

Ngo Van + 1 · Published 2022-04-18 · Updated 2022-04-25 · CVE-2022-27853

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Contest Gallery (WordPress plugin) versions <= 13.1.0.9

Description The issue is related to an Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in the Contest Gallery WordPress plugin. This allows an attacker with author or higher role to inject malicious scripts.

Recommendations For versions <= 13.1.0.9, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-27853

Affected Products

Contest Gallery

References · 5

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-27853 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-27853 · Security Note
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/contest-gallery · Note
• https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/contest-gallery/wordpress-contest-gallery-plugin-13-1-0-9-authenticated-stored-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability · Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/41033 · Telegram Post