CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-6565

7.5 HIGH Published 2018-07-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-07-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20, CWE-98

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 configurations

• imagely nextgen gallery (< 2.1.57)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
  • CWE-98 Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program weakness

References