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CVE-2026-9059: NextGEN Gallery - SQL Injection
- Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v4.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-05-20 · updated 2026-07-23
- Weakness: CWE-89
Description
NextGEN Gallery version prior to 4.2.1 are vulnerable to authenticated SQL injection via the 'orderby' parameter on the REST API endpoints '/imagely/v1/galleries' and '/imagely/v1/albums'. The root cause is an insufficient sanitization function ('_clean_column()') in the data mapper layer that uses a character blacklist instead of a whitelist approach. This allows an authenticated attacker with the 'NextGEN Gallery overview' capability (assigned to the Administrator role by default) to inject arbitrary SQL into the 'ORDER BY' clause.
Affected products
- awesomemotive NextGEN Gallery: from O before 4.2.1 — fixed in 4.2.1
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: awesomemotive NextGEN Gallery 4.2.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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