FKIE_CVE-2022-1971

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2022-06-27 09:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:23
Severity
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
The NextCellent Gallery WordPress plugin through 1.9.35 does not sanitise and escape some of its image settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
References
contact@wpscan.comhttps://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1bffbbef-7876-43a6-9cb0-6e09bb4ff2b0Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1bffbbef-7876-43a6-9cb0-6e09bb4ff2b0Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wpgetready nextcellent_gallery *
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          "product": "NextCellent Gallery \u2013 NextGEN Legacy",
          "vendor": "Unknown",
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              "status": "affected",
              "version": "1.9.35",
              "versionType": "custom"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "source": "contact@wpscan.com"
    }
  ],
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    },
    {
      "lang": "es",
      "value": "El plugin NextCellent Gallery de WordPress versiones hasta 1.9.35, no sanea ni escapa de algunos de sus ajustes de imagen, lo que podr\u00eda permitir a usuarios con altos privilegios, como el administrador, llevar a cabo ataques de tipo Cross-Site Scripting Almacenado cuando la capacidad unfiltered_html no est\u00e1 permitida (por ejemplo, en una configuraci\u00f3n multisitio)"
    }
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  "id": "CVE-2022-1971",
  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T04:23:26.873",
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}


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