NGG Smart Image Search, CVE-2024-13658

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-13658
Home page URL: Security reports for NGG Smart Image Search
Application: NGG Smart Image Search
Published on: Feb 12, 2025
Research Description: The NGG Smart Image Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'hr_SIS_nextgen_searchbox' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected versions: Min -, max 3.3.2.
Status: vulnerable