Photo Gallery Slideshow & Masonry Tiled Gallery Plugin server-side request forgery

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Photo Gallery Slideshow & Masonry Tiled Gallery Plugin up to 1.0.15 on WordPress. The affected element is an unknown function. This manipulation causes server-side request forgery. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-12237. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Photo Gallery Slideshow & Masonry Tiled Gallery Plugin up to 1.0.15 on WordPress. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a server-side request forgery vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-918. The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The Photo Gallery Slideshow & Masonry Tiled Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.15 via the rjg_get_youtube_info_justified_gallery_callback function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to retrieve limited information from internal services.

It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-12237 since 12/05/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 01/04/2025).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Photo Gallery Software

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• Photo Gallery Slideshow & Masonry Tiled Gallery Plugin

Version

• 1.0.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3
• 1.0.4
• 1.0.5
• 1.0.6
• 1.0.7
• 1.0.8
• 1.0.9
• 1.0.10
• 1.0.11
• 1.0.12
• 1.0.13
• 1.0.14
• 1.0.15

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