CVE-2021-24909 (GCVE-0-2021-24909)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-01-17 13:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:49
VLAI
Title
ACF Photo Gallery Field < 1.7.5 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
The ACF Photo Gallery Field WordPress plugin before 1.7.5 does not sanitise and escape the post parameter in the includes/acf_photo_gallery_metabox_edit.php file before outputing back in an attribute, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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 ACF Photo Gallery Field Affected: 1.7.5 , < 1.7.5 (custom)
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Credits
Krzysztof Zając
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