CVE-2020-35942

WordPress Gallery Plugin – NextGEN Gallery <= 3.4.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

highCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

8.8

CVSS Score

8.8

CVSS Score

high

Severity

3.5.0

Patched in

1132d

Time to patch

Description

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) issue in the NextGEN Gallery plugin before 3.5.0 for WordPress allows File Upload and Local File Inclusion via settings modification, leading to Remote Code Execution and XSS. (It is possible to bypass CSRF protection by simply not including a nonce parameter.)

CVSS Vector Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

High

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions<=3.4.7

PublishedDecember 17, 2020

Last updatedJanuary 22, 2024

Affected pluginnextgen-gallery

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1fa45912-3d26-4284-8957-5977aaf36a03?source=api-prod

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