Description

WordPress Plugin WordPress Gallery-NextGEN Gallery is prone to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. Exploiting this issue may allow a remote attacker to perform certain administrative actions and gain unauthorized access to the affected application; other attacks are also possible. WordPress Plugin WordPress Gallery-NextGEN Gallery version 3.28 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.

Remediation

Update to plugin version 3.29 or latest

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/wordpress-plugins/nextgen-gallery/nextgen-gallery-328-cross-site-request-forgery-leading-to-post-thumbnail-change

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

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2022-38468 CWE-352 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update CSRF