CVE-2015-9538

Nextgen Gallery vulnerability

CVSS

6.5

EPSS

10.1%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

The NextGEN Gallery plugin before 2.1.15 for WordPress allows ../ Directory Traversal in path selection.

Affected vendor

Imagely

Affected product

Nextgen Gallery

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

Published

2019-11-26

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 10.1% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2015-9538

Confirm whether Imagely Nextgen Gallery is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2015-9538.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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