CVE-2025-22317

CVE-2025-22317 is an improper neutralization of input during web page generation vulnerability, enabling reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) as defined by CWE-79. It affects the WordPress plugin "Photo Gallery – Image Gallery by Ape," identified by the slug gallery-images-ape, in all versions up to and including 2.2.8. The vulnerability was published on 2025-01-15 and carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L), indicating high severity due to network accessibility, low attack complexity, and changed scope.

Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely by crafting malicious inputs that are reflected unsanitized into dynamically generated web pages. Exploitation requires tricking a user into interacting, such as clicking a malicious link, which injects and executes arbitrary JavaScript in the victim's browser context. This can result in low-level impacts on confidentiality (e.g., session token theft), integrity (e.g., page manipulation), and availability, amplified by the changed scope to affect the plugin's security context.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/gallery-images-ape/vulnerability/wordpress-gallery-images-ape-plugin-2-2-8-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides details on the reflected XSS issue in version 2.2.8 of the gallery-images-ape plugin.