Vulnerability · Published Jun 6, 2024 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2024-4194Album and Image Gallery plus Lightbox <= 2.0 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
Medium 6.5
In plain English
A medium-severity code injection in Album and Image Gallery Plus Lightbox from essentialplugin. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 41% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
The The Album and Image Gallery plus Lightbox plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 2.0. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| essentialplugin | Album and Image Gallery Plus Lightbox | 0 – through 2.0 |
Weakness: CWE-94 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4822f1c7-3f83-416c-8957-17e4b53d7e69?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/album-and-image-gallery-plus-lightbox/trunk/includes/shortcode/aigpl-gallery-album-slider.php#L207
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/album-and-image-gallery-plus-lightbox/trunk/includes/shortcode/aigpl-gallery-album.php#L185
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3097986%40album-and-image-gallery-plus-lightbox&new=3097986%40album-and-image-gallery-plus-lightbox&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=