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

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2020-35942
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published December 17, 2020
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Ram
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.)

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug nextgen-gallery (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.4.7
Patched Version
  • 3.5.0
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