Deserialization in Awordpresslife Photo Gallery For Images

CVE-2024-1896

The Photo Gallery – Responsive Photo Gallery, Image Gallery, Portfolio Gallery, Logo Gallery And Team Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.2 via deserialization via shortcode of untrusted input from the 'awl_lg_settings_' attribute. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor access and above, to inject a PHP Object. No POP chain is present in the vulnerable plugin. If a POP chain is present via an additional plugin or theme installed on the target system, it could allow the attacker to delete arbitrary files, retrieve sensitive data, or execute code.

Vulnerability class: Insecure Deserialization

EPSS: 0.009 (56.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-1896?
CVE-2024-1896 is a high-severity vulnerability in Awordpresslife Photo Gallery For Images, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2024-05-02.
How severe is CVE-2024-1896?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-1896 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.