CVE-2024-8436

CVSS 3.1 Score 9.9 of 10 (high)

Details

Published Sep 25, 2024
Updated: Sep 26, 2024
CWE ID 89

Summary

CVE-2024-8436 is a vulnerability affecting the WP Easy Gallery plugin for WordPress. This issue allows authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access and above to inject SQL queries into the plugin through the 'edit_imageId' and 'edit_imageDelete' parameters. The vulnerability stems from insufficient escaping of user-supplied data and a lack of proper preparation on existing SQL queries, enabling attackers to extract sensitive information from the database. Versions up to and including 4.8.5 of the plugin are susceptible to this issue.

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