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CVE-2024-9769: Video Gallery <= 2.4.1 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-12-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Video Gallery – Best WordPress YouTube Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

Affected products

• totalsoft Video Gallery – YouTube Gallery, Vimeo, Video Portfolio, Image Portfolio and Image Gallery: before 2.4.2 — fixed in 2.4.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: totalsoft Video Gallery – YouTube Gallery, Vimeo, Video Portfolio, Image Portfolio and Image Gallery 2.4.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/179304/WordPress-Gallery-2.3.6-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b57c9e58-64a6-48e8-8ef6-25608e4131e6?source=cve

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