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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVE-2021-25041

Medium
6.1/10

Summary

The Photo Gallery by 10Web WordPress plugin before 1.5.68 is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issues via the bwg_album_breadcrumb_0 and shortcode_id GET parameters passed to the bwg_frontend_data AJAX action

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • LOW
  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-79 - Cross Site Scripting

Cross-Site Scripting, commonly referred to as XSS, is the most dominant class of vulnerabilities. It allows an attacker to inject malicious code into a pregnable web application and victimize its users. The exploitation of such a weakness can cause severe issues such as account takeover, and sensitive data exfiltration. Because of the prevalence of XSS vulnerabilities and their high rate of exploitation, it has remained in the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities for years.

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