The Media Library Assistant plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'search-string' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.42 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link. Exploitation requires the targeted site to have a publicly accessible page containing an [mla_gallery] shortcode configured with a pagination output mode and an mla_link_href template that reflects a {+request:...+} token, along with enough attachments to trigger pagination.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 4.7 · dglingrenNVD modified 2026-10-29 09:25
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 6
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/357d9d96-afb1-4b62-90cf-8d38a4cede0e?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/tags/3.42/includes/class-mla-shortcode-support.php#L2585
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/tags/3.42/includes/class-mla-shortcode-support.php#L2482
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/tags/3.42/includes/class-mla-data.php#L1548
- http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3760471
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/tags/3.43/includes/class-mla-shortcode-support.php