Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessObtain Contributor WordPress account
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DeliveryInsert malicious 'delay' shortcode attribute in post
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ExploitPublish injected gallery page
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ExecutionVictim browses to page
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PersistStored script executes in victim browser
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ImpactSteal session token or hijack admin session
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
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 hold at minimum Contributor-level WordPress access (PR:L per CVSS vector), confirmed by the CVE description. The Image Photo Gallery Final Tiles Grid plugin must be installed and active on the target site, and the attacker must be able to publish or edit posts that use the plugin's shortcode. The injected payload fires passively when any user visits the affected page - no further attacker-controlled interaction is needed. Limiting factors: sites with closed user registration, vetted contributor pools, or capabilities that prevent untrusted users from publishing shortcodes significantly reduce exploitability. No exploitation of default-configuration sites by unauthenticated attackers is possible. |
| Impact | The CVSS 3.1 score of 6.4 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N) reflects a Changed scope - the payload escapes the contributor's permission boundary and executes in victims' browsers - but the PR:L requirement to hold Contributor-level access is a meaningful barrier. The UI:N rating is debatable for stored XSS: while no attacker-crafted link is needed, a victim must still browse to the injected page, which some analysts would score UI:R (yielding a 5.4 base). No KEV listing and no public exploit code are identified, and no EPSS data was provided, so real-world exploitation probability cannot be independently quantified. The practical risk is elevated if a WordPress site permits open contributor registration, as this lowers the barrier to obtaining the required access. Against sites with closed or vetted contributor pools, the risk is materially lower than the CVSS score implies. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker who registers as or compromises a Contributor account on the target WordPress site creates or edits a post containing a Final Tiles Grid shortcode with a malicious script injected into the 'delay' attribute. When any authenticated user - including an administrator - loads the page, the script executes in their browser, allowing the attacker to steal session cookies and escalate to full site takeover. No public proof-of-concept code has been identified at time of analysis. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Aug 22, 2026
Stored Cross-Site Scripting in the Image Photo Gallery Final Tiles Grid WordPress plugin (versions through 3.6.12) allows authenticated contributors to inject persistent malicious scripts via the 'delay' shortcode attribute. The injected payload executes in the browser of any user who subsequently visits an affected page, enabling session hijacking, credential theft, or malicious redirects. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and a code-level fix has been committed to the WordPress.org plugin repository (changeset 3490676).
RemediationAI
Upstream fix available via WordPress.org SVN changeset 3490676 (https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3490676/); a released patched version number is not independently confirmed from the available data - update the plugin to the latest available version from the WordPress plugin directory and verify the version number exceeds 3.6.12. As an interim workaround, restrict contributor-level registration and remove untrusted Contributor-role accounts, as this eliminates the privilege required to inject the payload. Site administrators may also use a Web Application Firewall with WordPress XSS rules to filter shortcode attribute injection at the edge, though this adds latency and may produce false positives with legitimate gallery configurations.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The vulnerability resides in the WPChill-developed 'final-tiles-grid-gallery-lite' WordPress plugin, identified by CPE cpe:2.3:a:wpchill:image_photo_gallery_final_tiles_grid:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*. The flaw is classified under CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation), a stored XSS root cause where user-supplied input - specifically the 'delay' attribute processed in gallery-class.php around lines 34 and 235 - is neither sanitized on input nor escaped on output before being rendered into HTML. Shortcode attributes in WordPress are processed server-side and emitted into page markup; without escaping functions such as esc_attr() or esc_html(), attacker-controlled strings flow directly into the DOM, enabling script injection.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Stored XSS requires a victim to visit the page (UI:R); PR:L reflects mandatory Contributor access; scope changes to victim browser justifying S:C.
Primary rating from Vendor (Wordfence).
CVSS VectorVendor: Wordfence
DescriptionCVE.org
The Image Photo Gallery Final Tiles Grid plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'delay' shortcode attribute in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.12 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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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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Stored cross-site scripting in the WordPress plugin Image Photo Gallery Final Tiles Grid (final-tiles-grid-gallery-lite,
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EUVD-2026-64297
GHSA-248g-8gg5-f5fg
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
Vulnrichment
Exploit-DB