CVE Explorer
CVE-2026-6566
The Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in versions up to and including 4.2.0. This is due to insufficient object-level authorization in the image deletion REST flow where the permission callback for DELETE /imagely/v1/images/{id} only checks 'NextGEN Manage gallery' permissions and does not enforce gallery ownership or 'NextGEN Manage others gallery' permissions. This makes it possible for authentic
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0
Affected products and versions
1 source assertion{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery","vendor":"smub","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"4.2.0","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5affectedurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9530474bb873c2f72564b157d86525344b120c74baa552211a917e7da9e736ad · sha256:d1f31e192ebac066… · /containers/cna/affected/0
Provider-owned CVSS observations
1 source assertion{"metric":{"baseScore":4.3,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5cvssurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9530474bb873c2f72564b157d86525344b120c74baa552211a917e7da9e736ad · sha256:d1f31e192ebac066… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1
CWE assertions
1 source assertion{"cweId":"CWE-639","description":"CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5cweurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9530474bb873c2f72564b157d86525344b120c74baa552211a917e7da9e736ad · sha256:d1f31e192ebac066… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0
Source references
2 source assertions{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3533432/nextgen-gallery"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9530474bb873c2f72564b157d86525344b120c74baa552211a917e7da9e736ad · sha256:d1f31e192ebac066… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/439809ad-21ea-4a0b-b1fd-5de9f8f5ee7a?source=cve"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9530474bb873c2f72564b157d86525344b120c74baa552211a917e7da9e736ad · sha256:d1f31e192ebac066… · /containers/cna/references/0
Attribution and limitations
- CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →
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