ACF Photo Gallery Field <= 3.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Attachment Metadata Modification

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-12081
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published February 18, 2026
Last Updated February 19, 2026
Researcher Rafshanzani Suhada
Description

The ACF Photo Gallery Field plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the "acf_photo_gallery_edit_save" function in all versions up to, and including, 3.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber level access and above, to modify the title, caption, and custom metadata of arbitrary media attachments.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug navz-photo-gallery (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.0
Patched Version
  • 3.1
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