awordpresslife Album Gallery Plugin up to 1.6.3 on WordPress deserialization

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in awordpresslife Album Gallery Plugin up to 1.6.3 on WordPress. The impacted element is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to deserialization. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-13833. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in awordpresslife Album Gallery Plugin up to 1.6.3 on WordPress and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a deserialization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-502. The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The Album Gallery – WordPress Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.3 via deserialization of untrusted input from gallery meta. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Editor-level access and above, to inject a PHP Object. No known POP chain is present in the vulnerable software, which means this vulnerability has no impact unless another plugin or theme containing a POP chain is installed on the site. If a POP chain is present via an additional plugin or theme installed on the target system, it may allow the attacker to perform actions like delete arbitrary files, retrieve sensitive data, or execute code depending on the POP chain present.

The weakness was published by Francesco Carlucci. The advisory is shared at wordfence.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-13833 since 02/04/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploitation requires an enhanced level of successful authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/01/2025).

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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• awordpresslife

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• Album Gallery Plugin

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• 1.6.0
• 1.6.1
• 1.6.2
• 1.6.3

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