CVE-2026-111971

Photo Engine < 6.5.8 - Author+ Stored XSS via Collection Name

Unscored

The Photo Engine (Media Organizer & Lightroom) WordPress plugin before 6.5.8 does not sanitise and escape collection and gallery names before storing them and outputting them in an administrative dashboard, allowing authenticated users with the author role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Assigner
WPScan
Published
2026-10-22
Updated
2026-10-22
Reserved
2026-10-17

Affected

VendorProductVersions
Unknown Photo Engine (Media Organizer & Lightroom) < 6.5.8 (affected)
others: unaffected

References

Full CVE JSON record (5.2)

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