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CVE-2023-6947: Best WordPress Gallery Plugin – FooGallery <= 2.4.16 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Directory Traversal

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.7 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-12-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-25

Description

The Best WordPress Gallery Plugin – FooGallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.26. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor level or higher to read the contents of arbitrary folders on the server, which can contain sensitive information such as folder structure.

Affected products

• fooplugins Gallery by FooGallery: before 2.4.27 — fixed in 2.4.27

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: fooplugins Gallery by FooGallery 2.4.27. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/fooplugins/foogallery/pull/263/commits/9989f6f4f4d478ec04cb634d09b18c87a5b31c4d
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/68420c5a-4add-4597-bd2a-20dc831e81bd?source=cve

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