CVE-2025-1513 Cross-site scripting in Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe
Unauthenticated attackers can inject arbitrary scripts via comment fields in this WordPress gallery plugin, affecting all users viewing the pages.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-1513?
CVE-2025-1513 is a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in contest-gallery Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe, published on 28 Feb 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Photos, Files, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Ecommerce Contest Gallery – Upload, Vote, Sell via PayPal or Stripe, Social Share Buttons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Name and Comment field when commenting on photo gallery entries in all versions up to, and including, 26.0.0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers 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-2025-1513?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Contest-Gallery Contest Gallery.
How do I fix CVE-2025-1513?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-1513 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-2025-1513 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1513 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in contest-gallery Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe
- CVE-2024-11103 Contest Gallery <= 24.0.7 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Password Reset to Privilege Escalation/Account Takeover
- CVE-2024-10687 SQL injection in Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe
- CVE-2019-5974 Cross-site request forgery in Contest Gallery
- CVE-2024-32778 WordPress Contest Gallery plugin <= 21.3.4 - Arbitrary File Deletion vulnerability
- CVE-2024-30236 WordPress Contest Gallery plugin <= 21.3.4 - SQL Injection vulnerability
Sources
Also known as GHSA-4h65-5qp6-cgrp.