6.1

CVE-2022-1946: unknown gallery – image and video gallery with thumbnails Cross-site Scripting

CVSS: 6.1v3.1MediumModified
Published 04-07-2022Last modified 03-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-1946 is a medium (CVSS 6.1) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in unknown gallery – image and video gallery with thumbnails. EPSS estimates a 1.77% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77.9% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded. Fixed in 2.0.0.

Overall risk
35/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.1/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.77%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1reference

Timeline

  1. 04-07-2022
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The Gallery WordPress plugin before 2.0.0 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the response of an AJAX action (available to both unauthenticated and authenticated users), leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.77%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

78%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.77% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
1.77%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (wpscan.com)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Unknown1 product
Wordpress1 product
  • gallery-album≤ 1.9.9 (fixed in 2.0.0)
Wpdevart1 product

3 vendors · 3 products

References

2 links