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    1 vulnerability by dancoulter

    CVE-2017-20207 (GCVE-0-2017-20207)

    Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-18 03:33 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:17
    VLAI
    Title
    Flickr Gallery <= 1.5.2 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection
    Summary
    The Flickr Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in versions up to, and including, 1.5.2 via deserialization of untrusted input from the `pager ` parameter. This allows unauthenticated attackers to inject a PHP Object. Attackers were actively exploiting this vulnerability with the WP_Theme() class to create backdoors.
    Severity
    9.8 (Critical)
    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    SSVC
    Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
    CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
    CWE
    • CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
    Assigner
    References
    Impacted products
    Vendor Product Version
    Dan Coulter Flickr Gallery Affected: 0 , < 1.5.3 (semver)
    		Create a notification for this product.
    Credits
    Matt Barry
    Show details on NVD website
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