Vulnerability details

CVE-2017-20207

Dan Coulter Flickr Gallery

Flickr Gallery <= 1.5.2 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection

CVSS 3.1
9.8Critical

Official description

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.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
9.8Critical 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (Wordfence) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
Dan Coulter Flickr Gallery v < 1.5.3 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2025-10-18
Last updated
2026-04-08
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
Wordfence

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.73%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
54.6%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
Yes
Exploitation
None
Technical impact
Total

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-502
    Deserialization of Untrusted Data