CVE-2016-6565

Summary

CVECVE-2016-6565
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-07-13 20:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-09 23:19:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Imagely Nextgen Gallery All All All All
Application Imagely Nextgen Gallery All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
WordPress Imagely NextGen Gallery Plugin CVE-2016-6565 Local File Include Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Vulnerability Note VU#346175 - Imagely NextGen Gallery plugin for Wordpress contains a local file inclusion vulnerability CERT-VN www.kb.cert.org Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
WordPress Imagely NextGen Gallery Plugin CVE-2016-6565 Local File Include Vulnerability MITRE www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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