What is GHSA-5xmq-vg89-7x44?

GHSA-5xmq-vg89-7x44 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. The Document Gallery WordPress plugin through 5.1.1 does not sanitise or escape several gallery...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-5xmq-vg89-7x44 cover?

GHSA-5xmq-vg89-7x44 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-74921. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-5xmq-vg89-7x44?

GHSA-5xmq-vg89-7x44 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-5xmq-vg89-7x44MediumCVSS 6.8

The Document Gallery WordPress plugin through 5.1.1 does not sanitise or escape several gallery...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

October 19, 2026

Last Modified

October 19, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-74921 →

📋 Description

The Document Gallery WordPress plugin through 5.1.1 does not sanitise or escape several gallery shortcode attributes before embedding them in a single-quoted HTML attribute in the rendered gallery markup, allowing users with the Contributor role and above to inject arbitrary event handlers that execute when a higher privileged user views the content.

🔗 References (3)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-74921
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b0b97661-c671-420c-8fca-22666862b379
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5xmq-vg89-7x44