Best WordPress Gallery Plugin – FooGallery <= 2.4.16 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Directory Traversal

Path Traversal: '/../filedir'
CVE CVE-2023-6947
CVSS High (7.7)
Publicly Published December 9, 2024
Last Updated December 10, 2024
Researcher Colin Xu
Description

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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug foogallery-premium (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.4.26
Patched Version
  • 2.4.27
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