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CVE-2015-9537

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-11-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The NextGEN Gallery plugin before 2.1.10 for WordPress has multiple XSS issues involving thumbnail_width, thumbnail_height, thumbwidth, thumbheight, wmXpos, and wmYpos, and template.

Affected products

• Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes: before 2.1.10 — fixed in 2.1.10

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes 2.1.10. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://cybersecurityworks.com/zerodays/cve-2015-9537-nextgen.html
• https://github.com/cybersecurityworks/Disclosed/issues/1
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery/#developers
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/27/4
• https://cybersecurityworks.com/zerodays/cve-2015-9537-nextgen.html
• https://github.com/cybersecurityworks/Disclosed/issues/1
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery/#developers
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/27/4

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