Meow Gallery (+ Gallery Block) <= 4.1.9 - Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Options Update

Missing Authorization
CVE Not available
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published September 2, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher WPScanTeam
Description

The Meow Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary Options Update via the REST API in versions up to, and including, 4.1.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify otherwise restricted arbitrary site options. This can be leveraged to create new administrative user accounts.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug meow-gallery (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.1.9
Patched Version
  • 4.2.0
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