Polo Video Gallery โ€“ Best wordpress video gallery plugin <= 1.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

5.4
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24415
CVSS 5.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published September 20, 2021
Last Updated November 22, 2022
Researcher Michal Lipinski

Description

The Polo Video Gallery โ€“ Best wordpress video gallery plugin WordPress plugin through 1.2 does not sanitise or validate the parameters from its shortcode, allowing users with a role as low as contributor to set Cross-Site Scripting payload in them which will be triggered in the page/s with the embed malicious shortcode

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Vulnerability Details for Polo Video Gallery โ€“ Best wordpress video gallery plugin

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug polo-video-gallery (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Remediation No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2

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