Photo Gallery/Sliders/Proofing and Themes Plugin up to 4.4.x on WordPress unrestricted upload

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Photo Gallery, Sliders and Proofing and Themes Plugin up to 4.4.x. This affects an unknown part. Performing a manipulation results in unrestricted upload. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-81650. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Photo Gallery, Sliders and Proofing and Themes Plugin up to 4.4.x. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unrestricted upload vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-434. The product allows the attacker to upload or transfer files of dangerous types that can be automatically processed within the product's environment. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and WordPress plugin before 4.5.0 does not correctly validate the extensions of files extracted from an uploaded archive, due to a variable being reused as a loop counter so that the check always passes, allowing users granted its gallery-management capability by an administrator to write arbitrary files into a web-accessible directory and, on hosts that execute them, run arbitrary code.

It is possible to read the advisory at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-81650 since 08/27/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1608.002 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 4.5.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Productinfo

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.7
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.5

VulDB Base Score: 4.7
VulDB Temp Score: 4.5
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Unrestricted upload
CWE: CWE-434 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔒
Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
Status: 🔍

0-Day Time: 🔒

Upgrade: Photo Gallery/Sliders/Proofing and Themes Plugin 4.5.0

Timelineinfo

08/27/2026 CVE reserved
09/20/2026 +24 days Advisory disclosed
09/20/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created
09/20/2026 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: wpscan.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2026-81650 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-81650
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-408003

Entryinfo

Created: 09/20/2026 08:40
Changes: 09/20/2026 08:40 (54)
Complete: 🔍
Cache ID: 216::103

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