Vulnerability · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2026-28679HomeGallery: Path Traversal (Arbitrary File Read)

High 8.6

In plain English

A high-severity path traversal in home-gallery from xemle. 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 43% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.6High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 57.2% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Home-Gallery.org is a self-hosted open-source web gallery to browse personal photos and videos. Prior to version 1.21.0, when a user requests a download, the application does not verify whether the requested file is located within the media source directory, which can result in sensitive system files being downloadable as well. This issue has been patched in version 1.21.0.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
xemle	home-gallery	< 1.21.0

Weakness: CWE-22 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

https://github.com/xemle/home-gallery/security/advisories/GHSA-xj65-hcj5-h6j3 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/xemle/home-gallery/releases/tag/v1.21.0 x_refsource_MISC