CVE-2015-5594

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-07-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The sanitize_string function in ZenPhoto before 1.4.9 utilized the html_entity_decode function after input sanitation, which might allow remote attackers to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) via a crafted string.

Affected products

Zenphoto: through 1.4.8

References

http://cve.killedkenny.io/cve/CVE-2015-5594
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://cve.killedkenny.io/cve/CVE-2015-5594
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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