XSS in Apptha Contus Video Gallery

CVE-2014-9098

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Apptha WordPress Video Gallery (contus-video-gallery) plugin 2.5, possibly before 2014-07-23, for WordPress allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the videoadssearchQuery parameter to (1) videoads/videoads.php, (2) video/video.php, or (3) playlist/playlist.php.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.029 (85.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-9098?
CVE-2014-9098 is a vulnerability in Apptha Contus Video Gallery, classified under Cross-site Scripting. Published 2014-11-26.
Is CVE-2014-9098 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.