What is CVE-2008-7175?

CVE-2008-7175 is a vulnerability in Alex Rabe Nextgen Gallery, classified under Cross-site Scripting. Published 2009-09-08.

Is CVE-2008-7175 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Alex Rabe Nextgen Gallery

CVE-2008-7175

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-admin/admin.php in NextGEN Gallery 0.96 and earlier plugin for Wordpress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the picture description field in a page edit action.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2009-09-08 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.015 (72.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 73rd percentile — 72.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.015 · newest: 0.015 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Alex Rabe Nextgen Gallery — versions 0.33, 0.34, 0.35
WordPress

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

osvdb.org/51428 (vdb-entry)
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493182/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2008-7175?: CVE-2008-7175 is a vulnerability in Alex Rabe Nextgen Gallery, classified under Cross-site Scripting. Published 2009-09-08.
Is CVE-2008-7175 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.