# CVE-2021-24310: Photo Gallery < 1.5.67 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Gallery Title

> Authenticated high-privilege users can inject XSS payloads into gallery titles, affecting other users viewing the gallery in the admin dashboard.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 1 Jun 2021
- **Updated:** 3 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4fx9-rq9m-9gq2

## What is CVE-2021-24310?

CVE-2021-24310 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery, published on 1 Jun 2021. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Photo Gallery by 10Web - Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery WordPress plugin before 1.5.67 did not properly sanitise the gallery title, allowing high privilege users to create one with XSS payload in it, which will be triggered when another user will view the gallery list or the affected gallery in the admin dashboard. This is due to an incomplete fix of CVE-2019-16117

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-24310?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 10web Photo Gallery.

## How do I fix CVE-2021-24310?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-24310 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2021-24310 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24310 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery

- [CVE-2022-1281](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-1281/): Photo Gallery < 1.6.3 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2022-0169](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0169/): Photo Gallery by 10Web < 1.6.0 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2021-24139](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24139/): Photo Gallery by 10Web < 1.5.55 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2019-16119](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-16119/): SQL injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2019-14313](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-14313/): SQL injection in n/a (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2021-24310 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2021-24310 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery, published on 1 Jun 2021. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24310 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24310/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24310/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-24310
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24310
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-24310

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24310/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.