CVE-2021-24515 (GCVE-0-2021-24515)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-25 13:20 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:35
VLAI
Title
Video Gallery - Vimeo and YouTube Gallery < 1.1.5 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
The Video Gallery WordPress plugin before 1.1.5 does not escape the Title and Description of the videos in a gallery before outputting them in attributes, leading to Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues
Severity
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown Video Gallery - Vimeo and YouTube Gallery Affected: 1.1.5 , < 1.1.5 (custom)
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Credits
Asif Nawaz Minhas
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