WordPress security flaws: 800,000 sites running NextGen Gallery plugin potentially vulnerable to pwnage

Unpatched sites could get pwned – but admins must fall for social engineering

Users of NextGEN Gallery, the image management plugin for WordPress, have been urged to update their websites after the discovery of serious cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities.

The most serious of two flaws found by security researchers – each residing in separate functions – could lead to remote code execution (RCE) and stored cross-site scripting (XSS).

As a result, attackers could take control of a website, inject it with spam links, or redirect…


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