How to fix CVE-2025-1513?

Within 7 days: Identify all affected systems and apply vendor patches promptly. Verify anti-CSRF tokens and content security policies are enforced.

Is Contest Gallery affected by CVE-2025-1513?

Organizations using Social Share Buttons face moderate risk from CVE-2025-1513, a cross-site scripting vulnerability rated CVSS 7.2. Attackers could inject malicious scripts to steal user sessions, credentials, or perform actions on behalf of authenticated users.

CVE-2025-1513

HIGH

2025-02-28 [email protected]

WordPress XSS Contest Gallery PHP

7.2

CVSS 3.1

CVSS VectorNVD

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

Lifecycle Timeline

Analysis Generated

Mar 28, 2026 - 18:29 vuln.today

Patch Released

Mar 28, 2026 - 18:29 nvd

Patch available

CVE Published

Feb 28, 2025 - 06:15 nvd

HIGH 7.2

DescriptionNVD

The Photos, Files, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Ecommerce Contest Gallery - Upload, Vote, Sell via PayPal or Stripe, Social Share Buttons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Name and Comment field when commenting on photo gallery entries in all versions up to, and including, 26.0.0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

AnalysisAI

The Photos, Files, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Ecommerce Contest Gallery - Upload, Vote, Sell via PayPal or Stripe, Social Share Buttons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability could allow attackers to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by other users.

Technical ContextAI

This vulnerability is classified as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79), which allows attackers to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by other users. The Photos, Files, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Ecommerce Contest Gallery - Upload, Vote, Sell via PayPal or Stripe, Social Share Buttons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Name and Comment field when commenting on photo gallery entries in all versions up to, and including, 26.0.0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. Affected products include: Contest-Gallery Contest Gallery.

RemediationAI

A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Sanitize all user input, use Content-Security-Policy headers, encode output contextually (HTML, JS, URL). Use frameworks with built-in XSS protection.

CVE-2025-1513 vulnerability details – vuln.today

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