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CVE-2016-11018

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-01-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-89

Description

An issue was discovered in the Huge-IT gallery-images plugin before 1.9.0 for WordPress. The headers Client-Ip and X-Forwarded-For are prone to unauthenticated SQL injection. The affected file is gallery-images.php. The affected function is huge_it_image_gallery_ajax_callback().

Affected products

• Huge-It Image Gallery: before 1.9.0 — fixed in 1.9.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Huge-It Image Gallery 1.9.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://10degres.net/cve-2016-11018-image-gallery-sql-injection/
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gallery-images/tags/1.8.9
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gallery-images/tags/1.9.0
• http://10degres.net/cve-2016-11018-image-gallery-sql-injection/
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gallery-images/tags/1.8.9
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gallery-images/tags/1.9.0

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