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CVE-2021-24415: Polo Video Gallery <= 1.2 - Contributor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-10-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Polo Video Gallery – 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

Affected products

• Polo Video Gallery – Best wordpress video gallery plugin: through 1.2

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fd312bfd-7c98-4682-877d-846442e9c6a2
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fd312bfd-7c98-4682-877d-846442e9c6a2

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