PT-2023-19363 · WordPress · The Photo Gallery Slideshow & Masonry Tiled Gallery

Marco Wotschka · Published 2023-06-09 · Updated 2023-06-14 · CVE-2023-2402

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions The Photo Gallery Slideshow & Masonry Tiled Gallery plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.0.13

Description The issue arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping, making it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages. This can be achieved by tricking a user into performing an action, such as clicking on a link, allowing attackers to inject scripts via the search term parameter.

Recommendations For The Photo Gallery Slideshow & Masonry Tiled Gallery plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.0.13, consider updating to a version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping 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-2023-2402

Affected Products

The Photo Gallery Slideshow & Masonry Tiled Gallery

References · 4

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2808029%40wp-responsive-photo-gallery%2Ftags%2F1.0.13&new=2905480%40wp-responsive-photo-gallery%2Ftags%2F1.0.14 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2402 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-2402 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/51a1c2de-56be-4487-874a-a916e8a6992a?source=cve · Note