Image Gallery – Photo Grid & Video Gallery <= 2.12.28 - Improper Authorization to Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary Image File Move

Improper Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-12494
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published November 14, 2025
Last Updated November 15, 2025
Researcher Dmitrii Ignatyev
Description

The Image Gallery – Photo Grid & Video Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file deletion due to insufficient file path validation in the ajax_import_file function in all versions up to, and including, 2.12.28. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to move arbitrary image files on the server.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug modula-best-grid-gallery (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.12.28
Patched Version
  • 2.12.29
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