CVE-2023-6947 Best WordPress Gallery Plugin – FooGallery <= 2.4.16 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Directory Traversal

What is CVE-2023-6947?

CVE-2023-6947 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in https://fooplugins.com FooGallery Premium, published on 10 Dec 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Best WordPress Gallery Plugin – FooGallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.26. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor level or higher to read the contents of arbitrary folders on the server, which can contain sensitive information such as folder structure.

Weakness: CWE-22, CWE-25

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-6947?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fooplugins Foogallery.

How do I fix CVE-2023-6947?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-6947 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2023-6947 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-6947 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in https://fooplugins.com FooGallery Premium

• CVE-2023-44244 WordPress FooGallery Plugin <= 2.2.44 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) High 7.1
• CVE-2023-29439 WordPress FooGallery Plugin <= 2.2.35 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) High 7.1
• CVE-2025-6068 Cross-site scripting in Gallery by FooGallery Medium 6.4
• CVE-2024-12119 Cross-site scripting in Gallery by FooGallery Medium 6.4
• CVE-2024-2122 FooGallery <= 2.4.15 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Gallery Custom URL Medium 6.4

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-9q34-p9w7-3f57.