The Meow Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Attachment Alt Text (aria-label attribute) in all versions up…
The Meow Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Attachment Alt Text (aria-label attribute) in all versions up to, and including, 5.5.1 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. The vulnerable code path is only reachable when a gallery item is rendered as a link (i.e., link_href is non-empty), and exploitation relies on the fact that WordPress's sanitize_text_field() strips angle-bracketed tags but preserves double quotes, allowing an attacker to bre
Read at NIST National Vulnerability Database (CVE API 2.0)
- Vendor
- Tigroumeow
- Product
- Meow Gallery
- CVSS v3.1
- 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Exploitation
- SSVC none, automatable no, impact partial
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Exposure class
- Web platform
- NVD status
- Deferred
Why it ranks 14 (Routine)
- CVSS v3.1 6.4 medium
- Product class: web platform
- Recency: items published within 24 hours gain 15, within 72 hours 6, within 7 days 2.
Links
- NIST National Vulnerability Database (CVE API 2.0) (nvd.nist.gov)
- CVE-2026-9239 on this site · NVD · CVE.org · Vulnpedia