CVE-2020-35942

CVSS V2 Medium 6.8 CVSS V3 High 8.8
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.)
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2020-35942
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2021-02-09T18:15:44
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2021-07-21T11:39:23
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-352 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/352.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:imagely:nextgen_gallery:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* 1 OR 3.5.0
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 6.8
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 8.8
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/02/severe-vulnerabilities-patched-in-nextgen-gallery-affect-over-800000-wordpress-sites/ Exploit Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-35942
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-35942
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 07:04:35 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-05 21:44:50 2021-02-09T18:15Z 2021-02-09T18:15:44 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-05 21:44:50 2021-07-21T11:39:23 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-05 21:44:50 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated