Gallery: Cross-site scripting vulnerability

Background

Gallery is a web application written in PHP which is used to organize and publish photo albums. It allows multiple users to build and maintain their own albums. It also supports the mirroring of images on other servers.

Description

Jim Paris has discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Gallery.

Impact

By sending a carefully crafted URL, an attacker can inject and execute script code in the victim’s browser window, and potentially compromise the users gallery.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Gallery users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/gallery-1.4.4_p4"