CVE-2025-7725 Cross-site scripting in Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe
Unauthenticated attackers can inject arbitrary scripts via the comment feature, leading to potential session hijacking or malicious actions when users view affected 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-2025-7725?
CVE-2025-7725 is a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in contest-gallery Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe, published on 1 Aug 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, OpenAI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the comment feature in all versions up to, and including, 26.1.0 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-2025-7725?
How do I fix CVE-2025-7725?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-7725 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-2025-7725 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-7725 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-m9c2-6frp-5rqq.