vulnerability
WordPress Plugin: nextgen-gallery: CVE-2020-35942: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Dec 17, 2020 | May 15, 2025 | Apr 30, 2026 |
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
References
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-35942
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1fa45912-3d26-4284-8957-5977aaf36a03?source=api-prod
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2020-23525
- CVE-2020-35942
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2020-35942
- CWE-79
- CWE-352
- EUVD-EUVD-2020-23525
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