CVE-2026-9059
NextGEN Gallery - SQL Injection
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 9.3 Critical
- Published
- May 20, 2026
- Updated
- May 20, 2026
- Reserved
- May 20, 2026
Description
NextGEN Gallery version prior to 4.2.1 are vulnerable to authenticated SQL injection via the 'orderby' parameter on the REST API endpoints '/imagely/v1/galleries' and '/imagely/v1/albums'.
The root cause is an insufficient sanitization function ('_clean_column()') in the data mapper layer that uses a character blacklist instead of a whitelist approach. This allows an authenticated attacker with the 'NextGEN Gallery overview' capability (assigned to the Administrator role by default) to inject arbitrary SQL into the 'ORDER BY' clause.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 9.3 Critical | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H | tenable |
Weaknesses
- CWE-89 Improper neutralization of special elements used in an SQL command ('SQL injection')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
NextGEN Galleryawesomemotive |
|
References
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