CVE-2026-74921
The Document Gallery WordPress plugin through 5.1.1 does not sanitise or escape several gallery…
- Risk score
- 44/100
- CVSS
- 6.8 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.2%
- Published
- 19 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- The Document Gallery WordPress plugin through 5.1.1 does not sanitise or escape several gallery shortcode attributes before embedding them in a single-quoted HTML attribute in the rendered gallery markup, allowing users with the Contributor role and above to inject arbitrary event handlers that execute when a higher p…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 6.8 medium
References
Original description
The Document Gallery WordPress plugin through 5.1.1 does not sanitise or escape several gallery shortcode attributes before embedding them in a single-quoted HTML attribute in the rendered gallery markup, allowing users with the Contributor role and above to inject arbitrary event handlers that execute when a higher privileged user views the content.
Last activity 19 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.