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Description

The Gallery Metabox for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the gallery_remove function in versions up to, and including, 1.5. This makes it possible for subscriber-level attackers to modify galleries attached to posts and pages with this plugin.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2023-05-06 | Published 2023-07-12 | Updated 2024-10-22 | Assigner Wordfence




MEDIUM: 4.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Problem types

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Product status

Default status
unaffected

* (semver)
affected

Timeline

2023-04-21:Discovered
2023-06-22:Disclosed

Credits

Marco Wotschka finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-96d6-4937-a1f3-9d2d19bc6395?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...gallery-metabox.php?rev=611664

www.wordfence.com/...-96d6-4937-a1f3-9d2d19bc6395?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...gallery-metabox.php?rev=611664

cve.org (CVE-2023-2561)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2023-2561)

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