CVE-2022-2597: Visual Portfolio < 2.19.0 - Contributor+ CSS Injection

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-09-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-863

Description

The Visual Portfolio, Photo Gallery & Post Grid WordPress plugin before 2.19.0 does not have proper authorisation checks in some of its REST endpoints, allowing users with a role as low as contributor to call them and inject arbitrary CSS in arbitrary saved layouts

Affected products

Visual Portfolio, Photo Gallery & Post Grid: before 2.19.0 — fixed in 2.19.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Visual Portfolio, Photo Gallery & Post Grid 2.19.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/3ffcee7c-1e03-448c-8006-a9405658cdb7
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/3ffcee7c-1e03-448c-8006-a9405658cdb7

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