CVE-2024-12403: CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') in realwebcare Awesome Responsive Photo Gallery – Image & Video Lightbox Gallery
The Image Gallery – Responsive Photo Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'awsmgallery' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
The Awesome Responsive Photo Gallery – Image & Video Lightbox Gallery WordPress plugin (versions up to 1.0.5) contains a reflected XSS vulnerability due to improper neutralization of input in the 'awsmgallery' parameter. This allows unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious scripts that execute in the context of a victim's browser when they interact with a crafted URL. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-12403 with a CVSS 3.1 base score of 6.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N).
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation can lead to limited confidentiality and integrity impacts by executing arbitrary scripts in the victim's browser, potentially enabling session hijacking, defacement, or other client-side attacks. There is no impact on availability. The vulnerability requires user interaction (clicking a malicious link) and does not require authentication.
Mitigation Recommendations
A patch is available for this vulnerability. Users of the Awesome Responsive Photo Gallery – Image & Video Lightbox Gallery plugin should update to the latest version beyond 1.0.5 to remediate this issue. No additional vendor advisory content is provided, so check the plugin's official update channels for the patch. Until patched, avoid clicking untrusted links containing the 'awsmgallery' parameter.
CVE-2024-12403: CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') in realwebcare Awesome Responsive Photo Gallery – Image & Video Lightbox Gallery
Description
The Image Gallery – Responsive Photo Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'awsmgallery' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
The Awesome Responsive Photo Gallery – Image & Video Lightbox Gallery WordPress plugin (versions up to 1.0.5) contains a reflected XSS vulnerability due to improper neutralization of input in the 'awsmgallery' parameter. This allows unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious scripts that execute in the context of a victim's browser when they interact with a crafted URL. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-12403 with a CVSS 3.1 base score of 6.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N).
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation can lead to limited confidentiality and integrity impacts by executing arbitrary scripts in the victim's browser, potentially enabling session hijacking, defacement, or other client-side attacks. There is no impact on availability. The vulnerability requires user interaction (clicking a malicious link) and does not require authentication.
Mitigation Recommendations
A patch is available for this vulnerability. Users of the Awesome Responsive Photo Gallery – Image & Video Lightbox Gallery plugin should update to the latest version beyond 1.0.5 to remediate this issue. No additional vendor advisory content is provided, so check the plugin's official update channels for the patch. Until patched, avoid clicking untrusted links containing the 'awsmgallery' parameter.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.1
- Assigner Short Name
- Wordfence
- Date Reserved
- 2024-12-10T14:27:36.258Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 699f6e38b7ef31ef0b5980e1
Added to database: 2/25/2026, 9:48:40 PM
Last enriched: 4/9/2026, 6:20:08 AM
Last updated: 4/12/2026, 11:41:58 AM
Views: 17
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