High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Feb 9, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-35942

Description

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) issue in the NextGEN Gallery plugin before 3.5.0 for WordPress allows File Upload and Local File Inclusion via settings modification, leading to Remote Code Execution and XSS. (It is possible to bypass CSRF protection by simply not including a nonce parameter.)

Affected products

WordPress/NextGEN Gallery plugindescription
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Range: <3.5.0
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/02/severe-vulnerabilities-patched-in-nextgen-gallery-affect-over-800000-wordpress-sites/nvdExploitThird Party Advisory

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