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CVE-2024-9878: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-9878) affecting versions up to and including 1.8.30. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on November 5, 2024 (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the admin settings. This security flaw has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.8 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (NVD).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with administrator-level permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the injected page. The impact is limited to multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users should update to a version newer than 1.8.30 to address this vulnerability. A patch has been made available through the WordPress plugin repository (WordPress Plugin).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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