Injection in opajaap WP Photo Album Plus
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
The WP Photo Album Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions via the wppa_image_magick function. This is due to insufficient sanitization of the multipart upload filename before concatenation into an ImageMagick command string executed via exec(), with only escapeshellcmd() applied to the whole command rather than quoting individual arguments. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to execute code on the server. escapeshellcmd() escapes shell metacharacters but does not prevent argument injection because spaces remain as argument separators, and the filename sanitization applied at the database layer is never applied to the physical temporary file path used for ImageMagick processing.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-87909
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-mx4x-6r5x-jrh9
References
Other 6
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/693c7554-5122-4527-8a9c-aa31ea9623b7?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/trunk/wppa-photo-files.php#L860
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/trunk/wppa-photo-files.php#L281
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/trunk/wppa-functions.php#L4837
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/trunk/wppa-functions.php#L5286
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3701613%40wp-photo-album-plus&new=3701613%40wp-photo-album-plus
More opajaap vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-75232 Command injection in WP Photo Album Plus lets attackers run commands CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2026-15226 WP Photo Album Plus <= 9.2.08.003 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.2
- TI-2026-70201 Stored cross-site scripting in WP Photo Album Plus WordPress plugin CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.2
- TI-2025-13532 WP Photo Album Plus <= 9.1.05.008 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1
- TI-2026-08849 Cross-site scripting in opajaap WP Photo Album Plus CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4
- TI-2024-09234 Wordpress Photo Album Plus <= 8.8.05.003 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
Sources
- CVE-2026-87909 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-87909 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-mx4x-6r5x-jrh9 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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