CVE-2023-37270

Status: ModifiedHigh (8.8)—Exploit

Severity8.8High · CVSS 3.1

Exploitation probability4.50 %higher than 91% of CVEs

Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog

Public exploitAvailableNuclei template (automated mass detection)

Piwigo is open source photo gallery software. Prior to version 13.8.0, there is a SQL Injection vulnerability in the login of the administrator screen. The SQL statement that acquires the HTTP Header `User-Agent` is vulnerable at the endpoint that records user information when logging in to the administrator screen. It is possible to execute arbitrary SQL statements. Someone who wants to exploit the vulnerability must be log in to the administrator screen, even with low privileges. Any SQL statement can be executed. Doing so may leak information from the database.

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Version 13.8.0 contains a fix for this issue. As another mitigation, those who want to execute a SQL statement verbatim with user-enterable parameters should be sure to escape the parameter contents appropriately.

CVSS

Base score: 8.8
Version: 3.1
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 4.50 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 91
Score date: 10/20/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Public exploits

Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.

Nuclei template (automated mass detection) · Piwigo 13.7.0 - SQL Injection

Affected technologies (1)

Piwigo — Piwigo

CWEs

CWE-89

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