CVE-2021-24291

Photo Gallery vulnerability

CVSS

6.1

EPSS

14.4%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

The Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery WordPress plugin before 1.5.69 was vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issues via the gallery_id, tag, album_id and _id GET parameters passed to the bwg_frontend_data AJAX action (available to both unauthenticated and authenticated users)

Affected vendor

10web

Affected product

Photo Gallery

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Published

2021-05-14

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to low impact to confidentiality, low impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 14.4% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2021-24291

Confirm whether 10web Photo Gallery is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2021-24291.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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