Photo Gallery Slideshow & Masonry Tiled Gallery WordPress Plugin Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability

A Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability has been identified in the Photo Gallery Slideshow & Masonry Tiled Gallery plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions through 1.0.15. The vulnerability arises in the rjg_get_youtube_info_justified_gallery_callback function, allowing authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access and above to make web requests to arbitrary locations from the web application. This could be exploited to retrieve limited information from internal services.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability allows for Server-Side Request Forgery, where an authenticated attacker can make requests to internal services from the perspective of the web application.

Remediation

Users are advised to update the plugin to version 1.0.16 or a newer patched version.