CVE-2025-29011
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been identified in CHR Designer YouTube Simple Gallery plugin versions up to 2.2.0. The vulnerability was discovered by researcher Skalucy and was publicly disclosed on June 5, 2025. This security issue affects WordPress installations with the YouTube Simple Gallery plugin installed (Patchstack, Wordfence).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation). It has received a CVSS v3.1 score of 6.5 (Medium), with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L. The vulnerability requires authenticated access with Contributor-level privileges or higher to exploit (NVD, Patchstack).

Impact

If exploited, this vulnerability could allow malicious actors to inject malicious scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website. These injected scripts would be executed when visitors access the affected site (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Currently, there is no official fix available for this vulnerability. The issue affects versions up to 2.2.0 of the YouTube Simple Gallery plugin (Patchstack).

Additional resources


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