CVE-2016-6565 The Imagely NextGen Gallery plugin for Wordpress prior to version 2.1.57 may execute code from an uploaded malicious file

2018-07-1320:00:00

CWE-98

certcc

www.cve.org

AI Score

7.9

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

51.7%

JSON

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).

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "NextGen Gallery plugin",
    "vendor": "Imagely",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThan": "2.1.57",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "2.1.57",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References

www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/346175

www.securityfocus.com/bid/94356/