NextGEN Gallery < 4.5.0 - Authenticated Arbitrary File Upload via ZIP Import
cve-program · CVE-2026-81650
PublishedThe Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and WordPress plugin before 4.5.0 does not correctly validate the extensions of files extracted from an uploaded archive, due to a variable being reused as a loop counter so that the check always passes, allowing users granted its gallery-management capability by an administrator to write arbitrary files into a web-accessible directory and, on hosts that execute them, run arbitrary code.
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cve-program · CVE-2026-81650
PublishedNextGEN Gallery < 4.5.0 - Authenticated Arbitrary File Upload via ZIP Import
The Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and WordPress plugin before 4.5.0 does not correctly validate the extensions of files extracted from an uploaded archive, due to a variable being reused as a loop counter so that the check always passes, allowing users granted its gallery-management capability by an administrator to write arbitrary files into a web-accessible directory and, on hosts that execute them, run arbitrary code.
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- 20 Sep 2026 06:00:15 UTC
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- 20 Sep 2026 13:46:51 UTC
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- 23 Oct 2026 15:48:27 UTC
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