AEGLIX vulnerability intelligence
CVE-2026-92115
HIGH · CVSS 8.8 · Deferred
Published: 2026-10-16 · Updated: 2026-10-16 · Source: NVD
Stored catalog record
Source record retrieved 2026-10-28T10:22:58.266242+00:00. Scheduled imports handle updates; this page does not assert that the provider was queried just now.
Vulnerability overview
The WP Photo Album Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authenticated Command Injection in all versions up to, and including, 9.3.02.002 via the `value` parameter of the `update-photo` AJAX action. This is due to insufficient shell escaping within the `wppa_image_magick_a()` function, where the attacker-controlled `value` parameter is concatenated raw — without `escapeshellarg()` — into an ImageMagick command string before being passed to `exec()`; further, `wppa_decode()` actively restores percent-encoded shell metacharacters (e.g., `%26`→`&`, `%23`→`#`) rather than stripping them, allowing crafted payloads to survive sanitization and break out of the ImageMagick argument context. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers holding the plugin-defined `wppa_upload` capability to execute arbitrary operating-system commands as the web-server user, achieving full remote code execution on the underlying server. Exploitation requires ImageMagick to be enabled on the server; the `wppa_upload` capability is a plugin-level privilege that site administrators may grant to lower-privileged WordPress roles via the plugin's Users settings, broadening the pool of potential attackers beyond administrators.
Patch review priority
Assess exposure and vendor guidance
- No higher-priority signal is available in the current stored evidence.
FIRST EPSS: 1.43% · percentile 72.9 · score date 2026-10-27.
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Severity and scoring
- CVSS score
- 8.8 · HIGH
- CVSS version
- 3.1
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-77
CVSS measures technical severity; it does not establish whether this vulnerability is being exploited in your environment.
Known exploitation and remediation
Not listed in the CISA catalog retrieved for this record. This does not establish that exploitation has not occurred.
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Affected products and versions
NVD has not supplied affected-version configurations for this record. Check the vendor references below.
Advisories and references
- https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-photo-album-plus.9.3.02.003.zip
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.3.01.003/wppa-ajax.php#L2211
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.3.01.003/wppa-ajax.php#L2223
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.3.01.003/wppa-ajax.php#L2557
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.3.01.003/wppa-photo-files.php#L859
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.3.01.003/wppa-photo-files.php#L874
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fc663d68-ca52-4012-847f-09817c121890?source=cve