Description
The All-in-One Video Gallery – Video Player & Galleries for YouTube, Vimeo & Self-Hosted Videos plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'custom_fields[embedcode]' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The sanitization bypass is possible because the save_meta_data() handler returns early when $_POST['post_type'] is absent — a condition always true during XML-RPC requests — and the plugin unconditionally grants Subscribers the publish_aiovg_videos capability, making this exploitable by any authenticated user via a single wp.newPost XML-RPC call.
References5
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/all-in-one-video-gallery/tag…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/all-in-one-video-gallery/tag…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/all-in-one-video-gallery/tag…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3759353/all-in-one-video-g…
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cc6b1fa7-d5f9…
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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6.4
MEDIUM
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 11 · as of 2 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-79
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