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Medium · 4.3 CVE-2024-8437 EUVD-2024-49175GHSA-6pm7-68mw-p76q

WP Easy Gallery – WordPress Gallery Plugin <= 4.8.5 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Gallery Manipulation

Published Sep 24, 2024 · Updated Apr 8, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

Description

The WP Easy Gallery – WordPress Gallery Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on several functions hooked via AJAX like wpeg_settings and wpeg_add_gallery in all versions up to, and including, 4.8.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to modify galleries.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
hahncgdev WP Easy Gallery – WordPress Gallery Plugin ≤ 4.8.5 —

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