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CVE-2015-5593

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-12-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The sanitize_string function in Zenphoto before 1.4.9 does not properly sanitize HTML tags, which allows remote attackers to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack by wrapping a payload in "<<script></script>script>payload<script></script></script>", or in an image tag, with the payload as the onerror event.

Affected products

• Zenphoto: before 1.4.9 — fixed in 1.4.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Zenphoto 1.4.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/18/3
• http://www.zenphoto.org/news/zenphoto-1.4.9
• https://software-talk.org/blog/2015/07/second-order-sql-injection-reflected-xss-path-traversal-function-execution-vulnerability-zenphoto/
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/18/3
• http://www.zenphoto.org/news/zenphoto-1.4.9
• https://software-talk.org/blog/2015/07/second-order-sql-injection-reflected-xss-path-traversal-function-execution-vulnerability-zenphoto/

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