Description

WordPress Plugin Meow Gallery (+ Gallery Block) is prone to an SQL injection vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data before using it in an SQL query. Exploiting this issue could allow an attacker to compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database. WordPress Plugin Meow Gallery (+ Gallery Block) version 4.1.8 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.

Remediation

Update to plugin version 4.1.9 or latest

References

https://sploitus.com/exploit?id=WPEX-ID:08DBE202-0136-4502-87E7-5E984DC27B16

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/meow-gallery/trunk/readme.txt

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2021-24465 CWE-89 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update SQL Injection