{"id":"CVE-2026-74920","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-74920","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T09:27:30.285Z","title":"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…","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.","published":"2026-10-15T07:18:03.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-15T14:47:06.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"contact@wpscan.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00142,"percentile":0.03463,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-10-15","score":0.00158,"percentile":0.04514}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"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."},"changes":[{"kind":"scored","label":"Newly scored","at":"2026-10-15T11:45:10.000Z","detail":{"from":null,"score":"7.1","severity":"HIGH","fromSeverity":null},"summary":"Now scored CVSS 7.1 HIGH."},{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-15T07:18:03.000Z","detail":{"score":null,"severity":null,"publishedAt":"2026-10-15T07:18:02.610Z"},"summary":"New CVE, high severity (CVSS 7.1)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/aa80cef6-b2fd-47ef-bac9-53438aa27573/","source":"contact@wpscan.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-74920","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}