CVE-2014-9098

Apptha WordPress Video Gallery <2014-07-23 - XSS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2014-9098. PoCs published by Claudio Viviani.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit demonstrates SQL injection and XSS vulnerabilities in WordPress Video Gallery 2.5. It includes SQLmap commands for blind SQLi and a reflected XSS payload for authenticated users.

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Apptha WordPress Video Gallery (contus-video-gallery) plugin 2.5, possibly before 2014-07-23, for WordPress allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the videoadssearchQuery parameter to (1) videoads/videoads.php, (2) video/video.php, or (3) playlist/playlist.php.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC
by Claudio Viviani · textwebappsphp
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/34161

This exploit demonstrates SQL injection and XSS vulnerabilities in WordPress Video Gallery 2.5. It includes SQLmap commands for blind SQLi and a reflected XSS payload for authenticated users.

Classification
Working Poc 90%
Attack Type
Sqli | Xss
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: WordPress Video Gallery 2.5
Auth required
Prerequisites: access to vulnerable WordPress installation · SQLmap for SQLi exploitation
mistral-large-3 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68883

Scores

EPSS 0.0288
EPSS Percentile 85.1%

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (1)
apptha/contus_video_gallery 2.5
Published Nov 26, 2014
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026