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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityDeferred

CVE-2026-74920

The Document Gallery WordPress plugin through 5.1.1 does not properly sanitise and escape user input before reflecting it inside an HTML attribute in the response of an unauthenticated AJAX action, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting…

HIGH 7.1EPSS 0.14%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.14%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

The Document Gallery WordPress plugin through 5.1.1 does not properly sanitise and escape user input before reflecting it inside an HTML attribute in the response of an unauthenticated AJAX action, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability which can be exploited against any visitor, including a logged-in administrator.

CVSS 3.1
7.1 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS
0.14% probability · 3th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-79
Source
contact@wpscan.com
EPSS trend
0%3%5%15 October 2026: 0.16%27 October 2026: 0.14%15 October 202627 October 2026

EPSS moved from 0.2% on 15 October 2026 to 0.1% on 27 October 2026.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.