NextGen Gallery <= 2.1.7 — Path Traversal
50589b41-cc2b-4ffa-ab63-509fb9d61be2Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤2.1.7Update to 2.1.9 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium6.5
- CVSS
- 6.5CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:NIntegrity- None
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-22 Path Traversal
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery nextgen-gallery
- Affected≤ 2.1.7
- Patched in2.1.9
Update to 2.1.9 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 2.1.7. Version 2.1.9 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 2.1.9, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Sathish Kumar.
The NextGen Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in versions up to, and including, 2.1.7 via the browse_folder AJAX action and the 'dir' parameter. This allows authenticated attackers to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.5
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.