vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: photo-gallery: CVE-2017-12977: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 20, 2017
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Web-Dorado "Photo Gallery by WD - Responsive Photo Gallery" plugin before 1.3.51 for WordPress has a SQL injection vulnerability related to bwg_edit_tag() in photo-gallery.php and edit_tag() in admin/controllers/BWGControllerTags_bwg.php. It is exploitable by administrators via the tag_id parameter.

Solution

photo-gallery-plugin-cve-2017-12977
Title
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