CVE-2024-3097· NVD / CVE Program· CNA Wordfence

WordPress Gallery Plugin – NextGEN Gallery <= 3.59 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Information Disclosure

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 32/100)

A ready-made attack module is public (Nuclei); exploiting it takes no special expertise.
Public proof-of-concept code exists (Exploit-DB / GitHub); there is no record of exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 38% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 98.5% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
No fixed version is recorded, but the references include a patch (commit or PR) link.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. See the fix and affected versions sections below.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

The WordPress Gallery Plugin – NextGEN Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the get_item function in versions up to, and including, 3.59. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including EXIF and other metadata of any image uploaded through the plugin.

MediumCVSS 5.3 · v3.1—Proof of concept No fix recorded

Published: Apr 9, 2024
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 38.0% · 98th percentile
CWE: CWE-862

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 21 / 40 · 5.3 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 11 / 30 · 38.0%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 5.3
CNA · Wordfence: 5.3; agree

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Vendor	Product	CPE
imagely	nextgen gallery	cpe:2.3:a:imagely:nextgen_gallery

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

imagely nextgen gallerybefore 3.59.1

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Wordfence). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

smub Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery
- up to and including 3.59affected · semver

Same product

imagely: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2019-14314A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the Imagely NextGEN Gallery plugin before 3.2.11 for WordPress.
52Plan
CVE-2013-3684NextGEN Gallery plugin before 1.9.13 for WordPress: ngggallery.php file upload
45Plan
CVE-2015-9538The NextGEN Gallery plugin before 2.1.15 for WordPress allows ../ Directory Traversal in path selection.
40Plan

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2023-3279Oct 16, 2023 · NextGEN Gallery < 3.39 - Admin+ Local File Inclusion
19Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2023-48328Nov 30, 2023 · WordPress NextGEN Gallery Plugin <= 3.37 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
35Monitor
Later →CVE-2024-2744May 17, 2024 · Nextgen Gallery < 3.59.1 - Admin+ Stored XSS
17Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

Proof of concept available

A public proof of concept or detection signature exists. Exploit knowledge is out there; don't delay patching.

Evidence

Nuclei detection template ×1

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Public exploit evidence
Source	Kind	Date
Nuclei detection template	Nuclei template CVE-2024-3097	—

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

plugins.trac.wordpress.orgchangeset 3063940

Credits

All researchers

Finders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.

Peng ZhouPatchstack Bug Bounty Programfinder

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).