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Photo Gallery by Ays — Responsive Image Gallery <= 4.4.3 - Authenticated Blind SQL Injections

CVE-2021-24462Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <4.4.4Update to 4.4.4 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
High7.2
CVSS
7.2
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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:H Privileges required
High
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-89 SQL Injection
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Photo Gallery by Ays – Responsive Image Gallery gallery-photo-gallery

  1. Affected< 4.4.4
  2. Patched in4.4.4

Update to 4.4.4 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 4.4.4. Version 4.4.4 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 by Ays – Responsive Image Gallery.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 4.4.4, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Photo Gallery by Ays – Responsive Image Gallery to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to To Quang Duong.

The get_gallery_categories() and get_galleries() functions in the Photo Gallery by Ays – Responsive Image Gallery WordPress plugin before 4.4.4 did not use whitelist or validate the orderby parameter before using it in SQL statements passed to the get_results() DB calls, leading to SQL injection issues in the admin dashboard

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in Photo Gallery by Ays – Responsive Image Gallery

All 11
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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium4.9Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection via 's' Parameter
≤6.8.2Update to 6.8.3
CVE-2026-76006
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery to Bulk Actions
≤6.4.8Update to 6.4.9
CVE-2025-13685
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤6.3.8Update to 6.3.9
CVE-2025-57947
Medium4.4Authenticated (Administrator+) HTML Injection
<5.7.1Update to 5.7.1
CVE-2024-37442
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤5.5.2Update to 5.5.3
CVE-2024-29919

Same weakness (SQL Injection)

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CVE-2026-120688
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Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter
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Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
Customer Reviews for WooCommerce≤5.127.0Update to 5.128.0
CVE-2026-121518

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 7.2

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
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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