# CVE-2024-5481: Path traversal in Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery

> Authenticated attackers can read arbitrary files and delete directories via path traversal in the Photo Gallery plugin, potentially exposing sensitive data.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 7 Jun 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-h438-86cm-g2q6

## What is CVE-2024-5481?

CVE-2024-5481 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery, published on 7 Jun 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.23 via the esc_dir function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers to cut and paste (copy) the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information, and to cut (delete) arbitrary directories, including the root WordPress directory. By default this can be exploited by administrators only. In the premium version of the plugin, administrators can give gallery edit permissions to lower level users, which might make this exploitable by users as low as contributors.

Weakness: CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory), CWE-35 (Path Traversal: '.../...//')

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-5481?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 10web Photo Gallery.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-5481?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-5481 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-5481 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-5481 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery

- [CVE-2022-1281](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-1281/): Photo Gallery < 1.6.3 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2022-0169](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0169/): Photo Gallery by 10Web < 1.6.0 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2021-24139](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24139/): Photo Gallery by 10Web < 1.5.55 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2019-16119](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-16119/): SQL injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2019-14313](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-14313/): SQL injection in n/a (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-5481 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-5481 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery, published on 7 Jun 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-5481 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5481/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5481/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-5481
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5481
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-5481

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5481/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.