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CVE-2026-9059

awesomemotive NextGEN Gallery — NextGEN Gallery - SQL Injection

EPSS 0.3%CVSS 9.3
critical.is priorityof 100
32
CVSS 9.3 (CNA)9.3 / 10 × 3027.9Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 22.1.222 × 204.4No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: none+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

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

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
NextGEN GalleryO – < 4.2.14.2.1CNA

Scores by source

tenable (CNA)9.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

References

reftenable.com/security/research/tra-2026-42