Fortinet Discovers WordPress Gallery Plugin - NextGEN Gallery Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in WordPress Gallery Plugin - NextGEN Gallery.

NextGEN Gallery has been the industry's standard WordPress gallery plugin since 2007 and continues to receive over 1.5 million new downloads per year. It's easy for simple photo galleries, but powerful enough for the most demanding photographers, visual artists, and imaging professionals.

A cross-site scripting vulnerability has been discovered in NextGEN Gallery 2.2.30 and earlier versions. The vulnerability is caused by an error because the image Alt & Title Text doesn't correctly process user-supplied data.


Solutions

FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:

Imagely.NextGEN.ImageAttr.XSS
Released Jan 10, 2018

FortiWeb can protect this specific vulnerability since the signature package 12.307.

Users should apply the solution provided by Imagely.

Timeline

Fortinet reported the vulnerability to Imagely on December 22, 2017.

Imagely confirmed the vulnerability on December 27, 2017.

Imagely patched the vulnerability on February 14, 2018.

Acknowledgement

This vulnerability was discovered by Zhouyuan Yang of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

IPS Subscription

Fortinet customers who subscribe to Fortinet's intrusion prevention (IPS) service should be protected against this vulnerability with the appropriate configuration parameters in place. Fortinet's IPS service is one component of FortiGuard Subscription Services, which also offer comprehensive solutions such as antivirus, Web content filtering and antispam capabilities. These services enable protection against threats on both application and network layers. FortiGuard Services are continuously updated by FortiGuard Labs, which enables Fortinet to deliver a combination of multi-layered security intelligence and true zero-day protection from new and emerging threats. These updates are delivered to all FortiGate, FortiMail and FortiClient products. Fortinet strictly follows responsible disclosure guidelines to ensure optimum protection during a threat's lifecycle.