What is CVE-2024-2744?

CVE-2024-2744 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagely Nextgen Gallery, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2024-05-17.

How severe is CVE-2024-2744?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

XSS in Imagely Nextgen Gallery

CVE-2024-2744

The NextGEN Gallery WordPress plugin before 3.59.1 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2024-05-17 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (30.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 31st percentile — 30.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagely Nextgen Gallery
Nextgen Gallery — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/a5579c15-50ba-4618-95e4-04b2033d721f/ (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-2744?: CVE-2024-2744 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagely Nextgen Gallery, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2024-05-17.
How severe is CVE-2024-2744?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.