Visual Portfolio, Photo Gallery & Post Grid <= 2.18.0 - Contributor+ CSS Injection

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CVE	CVE-2022-2597
CVSS	Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published	August 15, 2022
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	Krzysztof Zając

Description

The Visual Portfolio, Photo Gallery & Post Grid plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CSS injection via the REST API in versions up to, and including, 2.18.0. This allows authenticated users with contributor or greater privileges to inject arbitrary CSS into saved layouts.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	visual-portfolio (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 2.18.0
Patched Version	2.19.0

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