CVE-2026-42028

novaGallery: Unauthenticated Path Traversal in Album and Cached Image Routes Allows Reading Images Outside Gallery Root

CVSS 5.3 MEDIUMEPSS 0.3%CWE-22

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 5.3EPSS 0.3%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

08 May 2026Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

novaGallery is a php image gallery. Prior to version 2.1.1, a path traversal vulnerability has been identified in novaGallery. This allows unauthenticated users to read image files outside the intended gallery root directory. This issue has been patched in version 2.1.1.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected products

novafacile · novagallery

References

https://github.com/novafacile/novagallery/commit/46fe7b0f79f429e18c8cff3f92360c4513732ba6 https://github.com/novafacile/novagallery/releases/tag/v2.1.1 https://github.com/novafacile/novagallery/security/advisories/GHSA-wv5j-98c7-frm9