The Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and WordPress plugin before 4.5.0 does not correctly validate the extensions of files extracted from an uploaded archive, due to a variable being reused as a loop counter so that the check always passes, allowing users granted its gallery-management capability by an administrator to write arbitrary files into a web-accessible directory and, on hosts that execute them, run arbitrary code.
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Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:45:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-434

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:30:00 +0000

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Description The Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and WordPress plugin before 4.5.0 does not correctly validate the extensions of files extracted from an uploaded archive, due to a variable being reused as a loop counter so that the check always passes, allowing users granted its gallery-management capability by an administrator to write arbitrary files into a web-accessible directory and, on hosts that execute them, run arbitrary code.
Title NextGEN Gallery < 4.5.0 - Authenticated Arbitrary File Upload via ZIP Import
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-20T06:00:15.631Z

Reserved: 2026-08-27T09:27:24.690Z

Link: CVE-2026-81650

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-20T07:16:49.590

Modified: 2026-09-20T07:16:49.590

Link: CVE-2026-81650

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Updated: 2026-09-20T07:30:17Z

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