Envira Gallery Lite: Privilege escalation or authentication bypass
Envira Gallery Lite is affected by privilege escalation or authentication bypass. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. A successful request can grant permissions or access that the caller should not possess.
- Component
- Envira Gallery Lite
- Plugin slug
envira-gallery- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Mar 18, 2021
This CVE was published Mar 18, 2021 and is one of 3 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Envira Gallery Lite to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
Unvalidated input and lack of output encoding in the Envira Gallery Lite WordPress plugin, versions before 1.8.3.3, did not properly sanitise the images metadata (namely title) before outputting them in the generated gallery, which could lead to privilege escalation.
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N