CVE-2026-12982 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Document Gallery WordPress plugin before 5.1.1 does not properly sanitise and escape user input before reflecting it back in the response of an unauthenticated AJAX action, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability which can be exploited against unauthenticated users.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

No EPSS score available.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

Document Gallery

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 5.1.1

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Advisories

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a3c279ce-5db1-4331-ad74-4eef49619737/

History

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-79
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 6.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 06:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		The Document Gallery WordPress plugin before 5.1.1 does not properly sanitise and escape user input before reflecting it back in the response of an unauthenticated AJAX action, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability which can be exploited against unauthenticated users.
Title		Document Gallery < 5.1.1 - Reflected XSS via dg_generate_gallery
References		https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a3c279ce-5db1-4331-ad74-4eef49619737/

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2026-07-27T06:00:02.192Z

Updated: 2026-07-27T14:12:50.667Z

Reserved: 2026-06-23T11:36:33.944Z

Link: CVE-2026-12982

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-07-27T14:12:38.965Z

NVD

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Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

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