# CVE-2024-1487: Photos and Files Contest Gallery < 21.3.1 - Author+ Stored Cross Site Scripting

> Authors can inject malicious scripts via unsanitized parameters in the Photos and Files Contest Gallery plugin, potentially compromising user sessions.

- **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:** 11 Mar 2024
- **Updated:** 28 Mar 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-5xcj-6x8h-ff6h

## What is CVE-2024-1487?

CVE-2024-1487 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Photos and Files Contest Gallery, published on 11 Mar 2024. 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 Photos and Files Contest Gallery WordPress plugin before 21.3.1 does not sanitize and escape some parameters, which could allow users with a role as low as author to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

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

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-1487?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Contest-Gallery Contest Gallery.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-1487?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-1487 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-1487 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-1487 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Photos and Files Contest Gallery

- [CVE-2024-11103](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-11103/): Contest Gallery <= 24.0.7 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Password Reset to Privilege Escalation/Account Takeover (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-10687](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10687/): SQL injection in Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2019-5974](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-5974/): Cross-site request forgery in Contest Gallery (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2024-32778](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-32778/): WordPress Contest Gallery plugin <= 21.3.4 - Arbitrary File Deletion vulnerability (high 8.5)
- [CVE-2024-30236](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-30236/): WordPress Contest Gallery plugin <= 21.3.4 - SQL Injection vulnerability (high 8.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-1487 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-1487 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Photos and Files Contest Gallery, published on 11 Mar 2024. 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-2024-1487 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown Photos and Files Contest 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-2024-1487/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1487/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-1487
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1487
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-1487

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1487/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.