CVE-2014-9098
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Apptha WordPress Video Gallery (contus-video-gallery) plugin 2.5, possibly…
- 3.5LowCVSS base score
- 2.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- WordPress Plugin Video Gallery 2.5 - Multiple Vulnerabilities (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 34161webapps, phppublished 24 Jul 2014Not verified
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Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low3.5 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.9% · top 13% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References2
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/127611/WordPress-Video-Gallery-2.5-Cross-Site-Scripting-SQL-Injection.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 68883 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-8924 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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