CVE-2024-9416 Cross-site scripting in Modula Image Gallery – Photo Grid & Video Gallery

What is CVE-2024-9416?

CVE-2024-9416 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in wpchill Modula Image Gallery – Photo Grid & Video Gallery, published on 3 Apr 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Modula Image Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's bundled FancyBox JavaScript library (versions <= 5.0.36) due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-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-2024-9416?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Wpchill Modula Image Gallery.

How do I fix CVE-2024-9416?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-9416 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-2024-9416 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9416 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in wpchill Modula Image Gallery – Photo Grid & Video Gallery

• CVE-2024-12853 Modula Image Gallery <= 2.11.10 - Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Upload High 8.8
• CVE-2025-13646 Modula 2.13.1 - 2.13.2 - Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Upload via Race Condition High 7.5
• CVE-2025-13645 Modula 2.13.1 - 2.13.2 - Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Deletion High 7.2
• CVE-2020-9003 Cross-site scripting in n/a Medium 5.4

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-4m88-v589-v3w7.