Best WordPress Gallery Plugin – FooGallery <= 2.4.16 — Authenticated (Contributor+) Directory Traversal
CVE-2023-6947Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤2.4.26Update to 2.4.27 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High7.7
- CVSS
- 7.7CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/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:CScope- Changed
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:NIntegrity- None
A:NAvailability- None
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
FooGallery Premium foogallery-premium
- Affected≤ 2.4.26
- Patched in2.4.27
Update to 2.4.27 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 2.4.26. Version 2.4.27 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under FooGallery Premium.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 2.4.27, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch FooGallery Premium to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Colin Xu.
The Best WordPress Gallery Plugin – FooGallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.26. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor level or higher to read the contents of arbitrary folders on the server, which can contain sensitive information such as folder structure.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in FooGallery Premium
All 3| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting <2.4.15Update to 2.4.15 | CVE-2024-2762 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤2.4.8Update to 2.4.9 | CVE-2023-6747 |
- Medium6.4Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
<2.4.15Update to 2.4.15
- Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.4.8Update to 2.4.9
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 7.7
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- [object Object]. 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.