The 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.
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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| awesomemotive | NextGEN Gallery | unaffected |
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| https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2026-42 |
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| 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'. The 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. | |
| Title | NextGEN Gallery - SQL Injection | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-89 | |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: tenable
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Updated: 2026-05-20T07:59:31.182Z
Reserved: 2026-05-20T06:51:03.927Z
Link: CVE-2026-9059
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-05-20T09:16:27.020
Modified: 2026-05-20T09:16:27.020
Link: CVE-2026-9059
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