Author-level script execution via unsanitized descriptions
Published Mar 11, 2024 · Updated Mar 28, 2025
Stored XSS in Contest Gallery before 21.3.1 allows remote authenticated users to execute scripts through crafted entry descriptions. The plugin stores an author-supplied gallery-entry description without sufficient sanitization or output escaping and renders it in cg_gallery_no_voting. Author-level access is required to save the payload, and execution occurs in a viewer's browser when the affected gallery entry opens.
Summary
What happened
Stored XSS in Contest Gallery before 21.3.1 allows remote authenticated users to execute scripts through crafted entry descriptions. The plugin stores an author-supplied gallery-entry description without sufficient sanitization or output escaping and renders it in cg_gallery_no_voting. Author-level access is required to save the payload, and execution occurs in a viewer's browser when the affected gallery entry opens.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-1487
- Published
- Mar 11, 2024
- Updated
- Mar 28, 2025
- Vendor
- Wasiliy Strecker / ContestGallery developer
- Product
- Contest Gallery
- Classifications
- CWE-79, T1059.007
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Mar 11, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 28, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0 <21.3.1
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Public exploit references
- WPScan gallery-description stored-XSS proof of conceptproof of concept · validated
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