CVE-2026-42028 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 23.04.2026 Published: 08.05.2026 Updated: 08.05.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score: 5.3

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	Low
Privileges Required	None	Integrity Impact	None
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	None

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	novafacile
Product	novagallery
Versions	Version < 2.1.1 is affected

References

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

Problem Types

CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') CWE