Album and Image Gallery with Lightbox – Flagallery Photo Portfolio < 2.53 - Sensitive Information Disclosure

2012-12-24 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 2.53
Affected Plugin: Album and Image Gallery with Lightbox – Flagallery Photo Portfolio
Affected Version: < 2.53
CVSS: 4.9Medium
Weakness type: CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE: CVE pending

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At a glance

This record tracks a medium-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the Album and Image Gallery with Lightbox WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 2.53. It carries a CVSS score of 4.9 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality impact). The issue is fixed in version 2.53; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed December 2012, reported by Janek Vind.

Vulnerability Overview

The Album and Image Gallery with Lightbox – Flagallery Photo Portfolio plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Data Exposure in versions up to, and including, 2.52 via the 'dir' parameter in the admin/ajax.php file, the 'want2read' parameter in the admin/news.php file, and the 'f' parameter in the facebook.php file. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers to determine the existence of directories.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality.

CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Album and Image Gallery with Lightbox < 2.53 carries this weakness at dir, and reaching it takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Sensitive information exposure means data the application intended to keep internal is returned to a caller who should not be able to see it.

The disclosed data — credentials, tokens, customer records or internal paths — is usually worth more as material for a follow-up attack than as an end in itself. For Album and Image Gallery with Lightbox the fix is 2.53: builds < 2.53 are affected, anything from 2.53 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.53, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The fix is the thing that ends this: Album and Image Gallery with Lightbox 2.53 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

Alerts

External References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1197a66e-4557-458f-b8fd-b7a8e7586817

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CVSS Vector

4.9

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredHigh
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityNone

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