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WordPress Gallery Plugin – NextGEN Gallery, CVE-2016-6565

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2016-6565

Published on
Jul 14, 2018
Research Description
The Imagely NextGen Gallery plugin for Wordpress prior to version 2.1.57 does not properly validate user input in the cssfile parameter of a HTTP POST request, which may allow an authenticated user to read arbitrary files from the server, or execute arbitrary code on the server in some circumstances (dependent on server configuration).
Affected versions
Min -, max 2.1.57.
Status
vulnerable