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GHSA-XMQ9-MFWM-HG4M

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-31 09:31 – Updated: 2026-07-31 21:31

Details

WP Photo Album Plus is vulnerable to stored Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 9.2.03.001 through a decode-after-sanitize (double-encoding) flaw in the photo-comment pipeline. On write, wppa_do_comment() sanitizes the comment with wppa_filter_html() (wp_kses) followed by wp_strip_all_tags() (wppa-functions.php:2623-2624). Because wp_strip_all_tags() only removes real tags, an attacker who submits a double HTML-entity-encoded payload (e.g. &lt;img src=... onload=...&gt;) passes the write filters as harmless entity text and is stored one decode-level down (<img ... onload=...>).

Severity

6.1 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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CVE-2026-14922 (GCVE-0-2026-14922)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-31 06:00 – Updated: 2026-07-31 19:41

Title

WP Photo Album Plus < 9.2.04.003 - Subscriber+ Stored XSS via Photo Comment

Summary

WP Photo Album Plus is vulnerable to stored Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 9.2.03.001 through a decode-after-sanitize (double-encoding) flaw in the photo-comment pipeline. On write, `wppa_do_comment()` sanitizes the comment with `wppa_filter_html()` (wp_kses) followed by `wp_strip_all_tags()` (`wppa-functions.php:2623-2624`). Because `wp_strip_all_tags()` only removes *real* tags, an attacker who submits a **double HTML-entity-encoded** payload (e.g. `<img src=... onload=...>`) passes the write filters as harmless entity text and is stored one decode-level down (`<img ... onload=...>`).

Severity

6.1 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-07-31 19:41 UTC

CWE

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Assigner

WPScan mitre root Scorecard

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ca9f99eb-221a-41…	exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Unknown	WP Photo Album Plus	Affected: 0 , < 9.2.04.003 (semver)

Credits

Sai Praneeth Koti WPScan

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