# CVE-2022-0186: Image Photo Gallery Final Tiles Grid < 3.5.3 - Contributor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

> Contributors can inject malicious scripts via gallery descriptions, potentially compromising other users' sessions in the WordPress dashboard.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 21 Feb 2022
- **Updated:** 2 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4gvq-h6xw-fx34

## What is CVE-2022-0186?

CVE-2022-0186 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Image Photo Gallery Final Tiles Grid, published on 21 Feb 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Image Photo Gallery Final Tiles Grid WordPress plugin before 3.5.3 does not sanitise and escape the Description field when editing a gallery, allowing users with a role as low as contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against other users having access to the gallery dashboard

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

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-0186?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Machothemes Image Photo Gallery Final Tiles Grid.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-0186?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-0186 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-0186 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-0186 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Image Photo Gallery Final Tiles Grid

- [CVE-2024-6261](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6261/): Image Photo Gallery Final Tiles Grid <= 3.6.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2020-14962](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-14962/): Cross-site scripting in n/a (medium 5.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-0186 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-0186 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Image Photo Gallery Final Tiles Grid, published on 21 Feb 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-0186 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown Image Photo Gallery Final Tiles Grid. 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-2022-0186/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0186/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0186
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0186
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-0186

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0186/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.