WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

WordPress Gallery Plugin – NextGEN Gallery < 3.59.1 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Information Disclosure

Description

The WordPress Gallery Plugin – NextGEN Gallery plugin is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the get_item function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including EXIF and other metadata of any image uploaded through the plugin.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 3.59.1

References

Classification

Type
NO AUTHORISATION
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Peng Zhou
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2024-04-05 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2024-04-08 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2024-04-08 (about 2 years ago)

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