High

WordPress Gallery Plugin – NextGEN Gallery <= 3.4.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

  • Disclosed: 17.12.2020
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

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.)

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
WordPress plugin Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery <= 3.4.7 3.5.0

References

CVSS score 8.8/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-352
Platform
WordPress
Package
Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery
Disclosed
17.12.2020
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

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Vulnerability history: Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery

All published vulnerabilities of this package (WordPress plugin), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (49) in the archive
Total entries
49
First → latest
06.2008 09.2026
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 3
  • High 19
  • Medium 25
  • Low 2

Disclosures per year

  1. 2017: 1
  2. 2018: 2
  3. 2019: 3
  4. 2020: 2
  5. 2021: 0
  6. 2022: 0
  7. 2023: 5
  8. 2024: 6
  9. 2025: 4
  10. 2026: 10

earlier: 16

Severity:
  1. WordPress Gallery Plugin – NextGEN Gallery <= 3.4.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery this entry
    High · 8.8 CVE-2020-35942 <= 3.4.7 3.5.0
  2. Critical · 9.8 CVE-2019-14314 < 3.2.11 3.2.11
  3. High · 8.8 3fda31fa-efc9-44b9-99ba-9e3e23aa2ee0 < 3.1.7 3.1.7
  4. High · 8.8 a67eb1fc-4762-4bdc-b0a0-c043c36659d0 <= 3.1.5 3.1.6
  5. High · 8.3 78fedd41-f0ab-4148-a798-88de62f27008 <= 2.1.77 2.1.79
  6. High · 7.5 CVE-2016-6565 <= 2.1.56 2.1.57
  7. High · 8.8 CVE-2015-9228 <= 2.1.10 2.1.15
  8. High · 8.8 47fb0513-bebe-4e09-9402-d7e174ee92ce <= 2.0.65 2.0.66
  9. High · 7.5 cb855743-1d08-4e21-a23c-a4ffba615f57 <= 2.0 2.0.7
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