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WordPress Plugin: nextgen-gallery: CVE-2020-35942: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 17, 2020
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

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.)

Solution

nextgen-gallery-plugin-cve-2020-35942
Title
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