CVE-2024-2744: Nextgen Gallery < 3.59.1 - Admin+ Stored XSS

Description

The NextGEN Gallery WordPress plugin before 3.59.1 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-2744

Problem Types

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Affected Products

Vendor: Unknown

Product: NextGEN Gallery

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.11% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 30.24% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-18 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: poc

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-2744
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a5579c15-50ba-4618-95e4-04b2033d721f/

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