CVE-2015-9229 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

In the nggallery-manage-gallery page in the Photocrati NextGEN Gallery plugin 2.1.15 for WordPress, XSS is possible for remote authenticated administrators via the images[1][alttext] parameter.

Published: 2017-09-12

Score: 4.8 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:imagely:nextgen_gallery:2.1.15:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2015-9082	In the nggallery-manage-gallery page in the Photocrati NextGEN Gallery plugin 2.1.15 for WordPress, XSS is possible for remote authenticated administrators via the images[1][alttext] parameter.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00993.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://cybersecurityworks.com/zerodays/cve-2015-9229-nextgen-gallery.html
https://github.com/cybersecurityworks/Disclosed/issues/5

History

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Subscriptions

Imagely Nextgen Gallery

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-09-12T22:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:43:42.372Z

Reserved: 2017-09-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-9229

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-09-12T22:29:00.210

Modified: 2026-06-17T00:36:05.847

Link: CVE-2015-9229

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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