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UnGallery < 2.1.6 — Command Injection

5875a4c2-a309-41fb-8845-2935511ec6c0Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <2.1.6Update to 2.1.6 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Critical9.8
CVSS
9.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

UnGallery ungallery

  1. Affected< 2.1.6
  2. Patched in2.1.6

Update to 2.1.6 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 2.1.6. Version 2.1.6 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under UnGallery.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.1.6, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch UnGallery to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Charlie Eriksen.

The UnGallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Command Injection in versions before 2.1.6 via the 'search' parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the server.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in UnGallery

All 2
More vulnerabilities in UnGallery
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.1Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.2.4No patch available
CVE-2024-3582

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity critical, CVSS 9.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. 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.

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