CVE-2023-5307: contest gallery vulnerability

The Photos and Files Contest Gallery WordPress plugin before 21.2.8.1 does not sanitise and escape some parameters, which could allow unauthenticated users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks via certain headers.
CVE-2023-5307CVSS 6.1CMS

CVE-2023-5307: contest gallery vulnerability

The Photos and Files Contest Gallery WordPress plugin before 21.2.8.1 does not sanitise and escape some parameters, which could allow unauthenticated users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks via certain headers.

CVSS
6.1 MEDIUM
EPSS
39.93%
Known exploited
not in KEV
Product
contest gallery

What is known

The Photos and Files Contest Gallery WordPress plugin before 21.2.8.1 does not sanitise and escape some parameters, which could allow unauthenticated users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks via certain headers.

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