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CVE-2025-1513: Photos, Files, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Ecommerce Contest Gallery – Upload, Vote, Sell via PayPal, Social Share Buttons <= 26.0.0.1 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 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: none known
• Published: 2025-02-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Photos, Files, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Ecommerce Contest Gallery – Upload, Vote, Sell via PayPal or Stripe, Social Share Buttons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Name and Comment field when commenting on photo gallery entries in all versions up to, and including, 26.0.0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• Contest Gallery Pro: before 26.0.1 — fixed in 26.0.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Contest Gallery Pro 26.0.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3245199%40contest-gallery&new=3245199%40contest-gallery&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1b5cf360-0163-4a7c-8979-ec89ec80ad62?source=cve

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