Authenticated Local File Inclusion (LFI) Vulnerability in NextGEN Gallery
WPScan recently claimed there had been an admin+ local file inclusion vulnerability in the WordPress plugin NextGEN Gallery. That wouldn’t be a vulnerability, as Administrators can already do the equivalent of that. The proof of concept suggested that if there really was vulnerability, it wasn’t only accessible to Administrators. One of the steps suggests that anyone with the ability to create posts or pages could exploit this:
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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin NextGEN Gallery not discovered by us, where the discoverer hadn't provided the details needed for us to confirm the vulnerability while we were adding it to the data set for our service, so the rest of its contents are limited to subscribers of our service.
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