CVE-2025-6716 Contest Gallery <= 26.0.8 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Authenticated attackers with Author access can inject arbitrary scripts via the upload title parameter, 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-2025-6716?
CVE-2025-6716 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in contest-gallery Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe, published on 11 Jul 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, 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, OpenAI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'upload[1][title]' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 26.0.8 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-2025-6716?
How do I fix CVE-2025-6716?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-6716 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-2025-6716 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-6716 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2hfc-4pwf-c6m2.