CVE-2024-4194 affects the Album and Image Gallery plus Lightbox plugin for WordPress, specifically versions up to and including 2.0. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes due to insufficient validation before running the do_shortcode function. It carries a CVSS score of 7.3 (HIGH), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and potential impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:essentialplugin:album_and_image_gallery_plus_lightbox:*:*:*:*:free:wordpress:*:* | ||
>= 0, <= 2.0CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:essentialplugin:album_and_image_gallery_plus_lightbox:*:*:*:*:pro:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.