Flash-album-gallery up to 4.24 on WordPress gallery.php Path information disclosure

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Flash-album-gallery up to 4.24 on WordPress and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file flagallery-skins/banner_widget_default/gallery.php. The manipulation leads to information disclosure (Path). This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2014-8491. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Flash-album-gallery up to 4.24 on WordPress (Photo Gallery Software). This issue affects an unknown part of the file flagallery-skins/banner_widget_default/gallery.php. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability (Path). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

The Grand Flagallery plugin before 4.25 for WordPress allows remote attackers to obtain the installation path via a request to (1) flagallery-skins/banner_widget_default/gallery.php or (2) flash-album-gallery/skins/banner_widget_default/gallery.php.

The bug was discovered 11/13/2015. The weakness was disclosed 10/18/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared at g0blin.co.uk. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2014-8491 since 10/27/2014. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 705 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:flagallery-skins/banner_widget_default/gallery.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Upgrading to version 4.25 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Photo Gallery Software

Name

• Flash-album-gallery

Version

• 4.0
• 4.1
• 4.2
• 4.3
• 4.4
• 4.5
• 4.6
• 4.7
• 4.8
• 4.9
• 4.10
• 4.11
• 4.12
• 4.13
• 4.14
• 4.15
• 4.16
• 4.17
• 4.18
• 4.19
• 4.20
• 4.21
• 4.22
• 4.23
• 4.24

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