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CVE-2024-2081: FooGallery <= 2.4.14 - Authenticated (Author+) 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: 2024-04-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Best WordPress Gallery Plugin – FooGallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the foogallery_attachment_modal_save action in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.14 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• fooplugins Gallery by FooGallery: before 2.4.15 — fixed in 2.4.15

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: fooplugins Gallery by FooGallery 2.4.15. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/fooplugins/foogallery
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3057349%40foogallery&old=3039397%40foogallery&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e2edeb63-56ad-45e7-9e85-cdf0a8ef41e7?source=cve
• https://github.com/fooplugins/foogallery
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3057349%40foogallery&old=3039397%40foogallery&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e2edeb63-56ad-45e7-9e85-cdf0a8ef41e7?source=cve

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