CVE-2024-2081 FooGallery <= 2.4.14 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

What is CVE-2024-2081?

CVE-2024-2081 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in fooplugins Gallery by FooGallery, published on 9 Apr 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Best WordPress Gallery Plugin – FooGallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the foogallery_attachment_modal_save action in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.14 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-2081?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fooplugins Foogallery.

How do I fix CVE-2024-2081?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-2081 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2024-2081 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-2081 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in fooplugins Gallery by FooGallery

• CVE-2023-6947 Best WordPress Gallery Plugin – FooGallery <= 2.4.16 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Directory Traversal High 7.7
• CVE-2023-44244 WordPress FooGallery Plugin <= 2.2.44 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) High 7.1
• CVE-2023-29439 WordPress FooGallery Plugin <= 2.2.35 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) High 7.1
• CVE-2025-6068 Cross-site scripting in Gallery by FooGallery Medium 6.4
• CVE-2024-12119 Cross-site scripting in Gallery by FooGallery Medium 6.4

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-m83g-jj6q-34wp.