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CVE-2020-35942

HIGH 8.8 CVSS 3.1
Published
February 9, 2021
Last modified
June 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified
Reported by
cve@mitre.org
Weakness
CWE-79, CWE-352
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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.)

Affected products and versions

  • n/a n/a — Versions not specified
  • imagely nextgen_gallery — Before 3.5.0

References

  • www.wordfence.com https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/02/severe-vulnerabilities-patched-in-nextgen-gallery-affect-over-800000-wordpress-sites/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
  • nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record