Image Gallery With Slideshow: A security weakness
Image Gallery With Slideshow is affected by a security weakness. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Image Gallery With Slideshow
- Plugin slug
image-gallery-with-slideshow- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Sep 14, 2017
This CVE was published Sep 14, 2017 and is one of 5 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Image Gallery With Slideshow 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
Vulnerability in wordpress plugin image-gallery-with-slideshow v1.5.2, In image-gallery-with-slideshow/admin_setting.php the following snippet of code does not sanitize input via the gid variable before passing it into an SQL statement.
NVD vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H