Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery <= 4.5.0 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Read

7.5
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE CVE-2026-94123
CVSS 7.5 (High)
Publicly Published September 24, 2026
Last Updated September 30, 2026
Researcher Intrudify

Description

The Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.0. This is due to insufficient validation of a user supplied path. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files on the server, including sensitive configuration files.

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Vulnerability Details for Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug nextgen-gallery (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 4.5.1, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 4.5.0
Patched Version
  • 4.5.1

Recent vulnerabilities in Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 NextGEN Gallery <= 4.4.0 - Authenticated (Admin+) Insecure Direct Object Reference CVE-2026-81654 4.3 Erwan LR September 18, 2026
2 NextGEN Gallery <= 4.4.0 - Authenticated (Admin+) Insecure Direct Object Reference CVE-2026-81653 2.7 Erwan LR September 18, 2026
3 NextGEN Gallery <= 4.4.0 - Authenticated (Admin+) Insecure Direct Object Reference CVE-2026-81651 2.7 Murad Akhmedov September 18, 2026
4 NextGEN Gallery <= 4.4.0 - Authenticated (Admin+) Arbitrary File Upload CVE-2026-81650 7.2 Alihan Şahin September 18, 2026
5 NextGEN Gallery <= 4.4.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Insecure Direct Object Reference CVE-2026-81652 4.3 Meher Sudhakar Abbireddi September 18, 2026
6 Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery <= 4.2.3 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2026-28141 7.2 daroo August 3, 2026
7 Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN < 4.2.1 - Authenticated (Admin+) SQL Injection CVE-2026-9059 4.9 Joshua Martinelle May 20, 2026
8 Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes <= 4.2.0 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Image Deletion via REST API CVE-2026-6566 4.3 Bao Luu Gia Nguyen May 19, 2026
9 Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery <= 4.0.4 - Authenticated (Author+) Local File Inclusion CVE-2026-1463 8.8 Athiwat Tiprasaharn (Jitlada), Itthidej Aramsri (Boeing777), Waris Damkham March 17, 2026
10 Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery <= 3.59.12 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Local File Inclusion via 'template' CVE-2025-13641 8.8 Athiwat Tiprasaharn (Jitlada) December 17, 2025

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