CVE-2014-2558

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-05-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

The File Gallery plugin before 1.7.9.2 for WordPress does not properly escape strings, which allows remote administrators to execute arbitrary PHP code via a \' (backslash quote) in the setting fields to /wp-admin/options-media.php, related to the create_function function.

Affected products

Skyphe File-Gallery: through 1.7.9; 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.5-a (+56)

References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/305
http://wordpress.org/plugins/file-gallery/changelog/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67120
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67183
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/305
http://wordpress.org/plugins/file-gallery/changelog/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67120
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67183

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