CVE-2026-18579
The WP Photo Album Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 9.2.08.003 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The nonce failure path for the getshortcodedrenderedfenodelay action serves as the log-write trigger rather than an access barrier — a deliberately failed nonce check causes wppa_log() to record the attacker-supplied X-Forwarded-For value to disk, making the exploit fully reachable by unauthenticated callers via the wp_ajax_nopriv_wppa endpoint.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Puntuación base: 7.2
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.29%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 20
- Fecha de la puntuación: 5/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
🎯 Técnicas ATT&CK
Cómo se explota esta vulnerabilidad y qué consigue el atacante, en el lenguaje de MITRE ATT&CK.
- Explotación
T1190Exploit Public-Facing Applicationinitial access60 % - Impacto principal
T1059.007JavaScriptexecution55 %
Inferido por reglas deterministas a partir del vector CVSS y la CWE. Solo orientativo.
🛡️ Mitigaciones ATT&CK que cubren estas técnicas
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
⚠ Inferidas por IA a partir de la descripción — NVD aún no ha analizado esta CVE; no son CPE verificados.
CWE
- CWE-79
Referencias
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.2.07.002/js/wppa-admin-scripts.js#L2069
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.2.07.002/wppa-ajax.php#L1246
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.2.07.002/wppa-input.php#L560
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.2.07.002/wppa-utils.php#L1960
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.2.08.003/js/wppa-admin-scripts.js#L2069
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.2.08.003/wppa-ajax.php#L1246
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.2.08.003/wppa-input.php#L560
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.2.08.003/wppa-utils.php#L1960
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3641521%40wp-photo-album-plus%2Ftrunk%2Fjs%2Fwppa-admin-scripts.js&old=3625666%40wp-photo-album-plus%2Ftrunk%2Fjs%2Fwppa-admin-scripts.js&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3641521%40wp-photo-album-plus%2Ftrunk%2Fwppa-input.php&old=3619969%40wp-photo-album-plus%2Ftrunk%2Fwppa-input.php&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/251943ed-65d2-4635-9c84-2cf671233543?source=cve
JSON original (NVD)
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