CVE-2020-35942

8.8 highEPSS 1.4%

High (8.8) in imagely nextgen gallery. EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) issue in the NextGEN Gallery plugin before 3.5.0 for WordPress allows File Upload and Local File Inclusion via settings modification, leading to Remote Code Execution and XSS. (It is possible to bypass CSRF protection by simply not including a nonce parameter.)

Severity

CVSS 3.1

8.8 high

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

EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 72% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs: CWE-79, CWE-352
Published: 2021-02-09
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

imagely:nextgen_gallery

References

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/02/severe-vulnerabilities-patched-in-nextgen-gallery-affect-over-800000-wordpress-sites/
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/02/severe-vulnerabilities-patched-in-nextgen-gallery-affect-over-800000-wordpress-sites/

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