CVE-2026-9059

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.

Score

CVSS 4.0 9.3 Critical

Status

Deferred - vulnreport@tenable.com

Published

2026-05-20

Last modified

2026-05-20

Weaknesses

CWE-89

Affected products

• Nextgen Gallery (Awesomemotive)

References

• https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2026-42