Cross-site scripting in Photo Gallery - Image Gallery by Ape - CVE-2019-6117
Published: April 12, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU18249
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-6117
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data passed via the classGallery.php getCategories function. A remote attacker can permanently store and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Affected software
Photo Gallery - Image Gallery by Ape
How to mitigate CVE-2019-6117
Install update from vendor's website.
Photo Gallery - Image Gallery by Ape - update to 2.0.0