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Visual Portfolio, Photo Gallery & Post Grid <= 2.18.0 — Contributor+ CSS Injection

CVE-2022-2597Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2.18.0Update to 2.19.0 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Medium4.3
CVSS
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Gallery by Visual Portfolio visual-portfolio

  1. Affected≤ 2.18.0
  2. Patched in2.19.0

Update to 2.19.0 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.18.0. Version 2.19.0 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Gallery by Visual Portfolio.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.19.0, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Gallery by Visual Portfolio to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Krzysztof Zając.

The Visual Portfolio, Photo Gallery & Post Grid plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CSS injection via the REST API in versions up to, and including, 2.18.0. This allows authenticated users with contributor or greater privileges to inject arbitrary CSS into saved layouts.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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High7.5Authenticated (Subscriber+) Local File Inclusion
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Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via FancyBox JavaScript Library
≤3.59.4Update to 3.59.5
CVE-2024-5020
Medium6.4Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via title_tag Parameter
≤3.3.2Update to 3.3.3
CVE-2024-4363
Medium5.3Unauthenticated CSS Injection
≤2.17.1Update to 2.18.0
CVE-2022-2543

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 4.3

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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