Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessCraft URL with script in 'title' param
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DeliveryDeliver malicious link via phishing/social
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ExploitVictim clicks, server reflects payload
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ExecutionScript executes in victim browser
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ImpactHijack session or act as victim
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Output encoding, context-aware escaping
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires the attacker to craft a request where the 'title' parameter carries a script payload that the plugin reflects back without sanitization or output escaping, affecting all versions of Photo Gallery by 10Web through 1.8.42. No authentication is required (PR:N), but exploitation is strictly gated on user interaction (UI:R): a victim - ideally a logged-in administrator - must be tricked into clicking the attacker-crafted link, and because the flaw is reflected (not stored) there is no persistence, so each victim must be individually lured. Realistic risk is thus limited to sites that receive untrusted traffic and users susceptible to phishing; fully patched sites (1.8.43+) are not affected. |
| Impact | This is a moderate, not top-tier, priority. The provided CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, base 6.1 MEDIUM) describes a reflected XSS that is network-reachable and unauthenticated (PR:N) but gated on user interaction (UI:R), which is the dominant limiting factor - the attacker cannot act autonomously and must socially engineer a victim into clicking a crafted link. No EPSS score was supplied, the CVE is not listed in CISA KEV, and no public exploit (POC) is referenced, so there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis; the only reporter is Wordfence (a credible WordPress-security vendor) with a patch committed upstream. The scope change (S:C) and C:L/I:L reflect that injected script executes in the victim's browser context rather than compromising the server directly - typical of reflected XSS, where impact is session/credential theft or forced actions, not host takeover. The signals are internally consistent (no conflict between vector and description): network vector with mandatory user interaction and limited, browser-scoped impact. Bottom line - real but low-urgency; patch during normal cycles rather than emergency response, with priority raised for sites exposed to untrusted/public visitors. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker crafts a URL for a vulnerable site that places a malicious script in the 'title' parameter and distributes it via phishing email, forum post, or social media. When a logged-in administrator or site visitor clicks the link, the unsanitized value is reflected into the page and the script executes in their browser, enabling session/cookie theft or actions performed as the victim. No public exploit code is identified, but the single-parameter reflected nature makes a working payload trivial to construct. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 15, 2026
Reflected cross-site scripting in the WordPress plugin Photo Gallery by 10Web - Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery (all versions through 1.8.42) allows unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary JavaScript into a page via the 'title' parameter, which the plugin fails to sanitize on input or escape on output. Exploitation is gated on user interaction: a victim - ideally an authenticated administrator - must be lured into clicking an attacker-crafted link, and because the flaw is reflected rather than stored, each target must be tricked individually, so this is assessed as a moderate rather than top-tier priority per our independent assessment (CVSS 3.1 base 6.1, AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N). No public exploit code was identified at time of analysis and the issue is not confirmed actively exploited (CISA KEV); WordPress.org plugin tags indicate the flaw is addressed in version 1.8.43.
RemediationAI
Upgrade the Photo Gallery by 10Web plugin to version 1.8.43 or later, which is the vendor-released fix confirmed by the WordPress.org Trac changeset tagging 1.8.43 over 1.8.42 (https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3638213%40photo-gallery%2Ftags%2F1.8.43&old=3553858%40photo-gallery%2Ftags%2F1.8.42); the same version is cited in the Wordfence advisory (https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7a1fb413-de45-4401-923b-b3b7bef526b4?source=cve). Where immediate patching is not possible, compensating controls are limited because the flaw is unauthenticated and reflected, so the practical options are: deploy a WAF or reverse-proxy rule that inspects the 'title' query parameter and blocks requests containing HTML/script metacharacters (angle brackets, 'javascript:', event-handler attributes) - with the trade-off of false positives on legitimate titles containing markup and normal bypass risk via encoding or parameter-name variation; and harden the human factor, since exploitation requires a victim to click a crafted link, so pair the WAF with phishing awareness for site administrators and avoid following unsolicited links into wp-admin. Disabling or removing the plugin entirely eliminates the exposure but is a functional trade-off for sites relying on its galleries, and no partial configuration switch within the plugin has been shown to remove the reflected sink. Verify the deployed version after updating, since caching layers and multisite deployments can leave stale copies of the pre-1.8.43 plugin in place.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The affected component is a WordPress plugin distributed through the official WordPress.org repository, tracked by CPE cpe:2.3:a:10web:photo_gallery_by_10web_-_mobile-friendly_image_gallery. The root cause is CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation / Cross-Site Scripting) in its reflected variant: the plugin takes the user-supplied 'title' parameter from an HTTP request and writes it back into the generated HTML response without adequate input sanitization (e.g., sanitize_text_field / wp_kses) and without output escaping (e.g., esc_html / esc_attr) at the point of rendering. Because the payload is echoed in the immediate response rather than persisted in the database, no server-side storage is involved, which is why the CVSS vector carries UI:R (the victim must click a crafted link) while remaining PR:N (no authentication needed to send the request). The S:C (scope changed) component reflects that the injected script executes in the context of the victim's browser session on the vulnerable WordPress site, enabling actions such as session/token theft or malicious redirects in the security context of the targeted user. The vulnerability is fixed upstream by the WordPress.org plugin tag 1.8.43, visible as a Trac changeset comparing tags 1.8.42 and 1.8.43.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Remotely reachable reflected XSS needs no auth (PR:N) but mandatory victim click (UI:R); script runs cross-context (S:C) with limited browser-scoped confidentiality/integrity impact and no availability loss.
Primary rating from Vendor (Wordfence).
CVSS VectorVendor: Wordfence
DescriptionCVE.org
The Photo Gallery by 10Web - Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'title' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.42 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
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Attack Technique
Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an application accepts untrusted data and sends it to a web browser without proper validation or encoding.
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