{"id":"CVE-2026-9059","aliases":["EUVD-2026-31073","GHSA-q977-85xc-w698"],"status":"published","title":"NextGEN Gallery - SQL Injection","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'.\n\n\n\nThe 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.","severity":{"version":"4.0","score":9.3,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H","level":"critical","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-11","score":0.00295,"percentile":0.22354,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-89"],"published":"2026-05-20T07:41:28Z","modified":"2026-07-23T20:10:00Z","products":[{"vendor":"awesomemotive","product":"nextgen gallery"},{"vendor":"imagely","product":"nextgen gallery"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2026-42"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-9059"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q977-85xc-w698"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-9059","title":"NextGEN Gallery - SQL Injection","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'.\n\n\n\nThe 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.","status":"published","published":"2026-05-20T07:41:28.135Z","modified":"2026-05-20T14:46:16.064Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":9.3,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H","level":"critical","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-89"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T13:42:37.965383Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-31073","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'.\n\n\n\nThe 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.","status":"published","published":"2026-05-20T07:41:28Z","modified":"2026-05-20T14:46:16Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":9.3,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H","level":"critical"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T18:21:14.344818Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-q977-85xc-w698","title":"NextGEN Gallery version prior to 4.2.1 are vulnerable to authenticated SQL injection via the ...","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'.\n\n\n\nThe 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.","status":"published","published":"2026-05-20T09:30:34Z","modified":"2026-05-20T09:30:38Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":9.3,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X","level":"critical"}],"cwes":["CWE-89"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:08:13.172248Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-9059","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'.\n\n\n\nThe 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.","status":"published","published":"2026-05-20T09:16:27.02Z","modified":"2026-07-23T20:10:00.13Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":9.3,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X","level":"critical","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-89"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:12:19.752984Z"}]}}