High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 13, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-6565

Description

The Imagely NextGen Gallery plugin for Wordpress prior to version 2.1.57 does not properly validate user input in the cssfile parameter of a HTTP POST request, which may allow an authenticated user to read arbitrary files from the server, or execute arbitrary code on the server in some circumstances (dependent on server configuration).

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Affected products

WordPress/Nextgen Galleryllm-fuzzy
Range: <2.1.57
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery
Imagely/Nextgen Gallerycpe-rescue
Range: 2.1.57

Patches

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References

www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/346175nvdThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
www.securityfocus.com/bid/94356/nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

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