Album and Image Gallery plus Lightbox <= 2.0 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution

Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVE CVE-2024-4194
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published June 5, 2024
Last Updated June 6, 2024
Researcher stealthcopter
Description

The The Album and Image Gallery plus Lightbox plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 2.0. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug album-and-image-gallery-plus-lightbox (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0
Patched Version
  • 2.1
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