Vulnerability · Published May 20, 2026 · Assigned by tenable

CVE-2026-9059NextGEN Gallery - SQL Injection

Critical 9.3

In plain English

A critical-severity SQL injection in NextGEN Gallery from awesomemotive. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 22% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 4.0)9.3Critical

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 77.8% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

NextGEN Gallery version prior to 4.2.1 are vulnerable to authenticated SQL injection via the 'orderby' parameter on the REST API endpoints '/imagely/v1/galleries' and '/imagely/v1/albums'. The root cause is an insufficient sanitization function ('_clean_column()') in the data mapper layer that uses a character blacklist instead of a whitelist approach. This allows an authenticated attacker with the 'NextGEN Gallery overview' capability (assigned to the Administrator role by default) to inject arbitrary SQL into the 'ORDER BY' clause.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
awesomemotive	NextGEN Gallery	O – before 4.2.1

Weakness: CWE-89 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

References

https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2026-42