CVE-2024-12696: Videowhisper Picture Gallery – Frontend Image Uploads, AJAX Photo List

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Picture Gallery – Frontend Image Uploads, AJAX Photo List plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's videowhisper_picture_upload_guest shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.22 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 products

• Videowhisper Picture Gallery – Frontend Image Uploads, AJAX Photo List: up to and including 1.5.22

Published 2025-01-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.