CVE-2025-10383 Cross-site scripting in Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe
Authenticated attackers with author-level access can inject arbitrary web scripts via form fields, leading to stored XSS execution on victim pages.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-10383?
CVE-2025-10383 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in contest-gallery Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe, published on 4 Oct 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Contest Gallery – Upload, Vote & Sell with PayPal and Stripe plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via multiple form field parameters in all versions up to, and including, 27.0.2. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access or higher, 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-2025-10383?
How do I fix CVE-2025-10383?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-10383 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-2025-10383 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-10383 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-gwqg-2qww-8ghf.