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: 2023-07-12
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-34039 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.
History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Gallery Metabox <= 1.5 - Missing Authorization via gallery_remove
Weaknesses CWE-862

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 19:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Subscriptions

Gallery-metabox Project Gallery-metabox
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T17:34:25.447Z

Reserved: 2023-05-06T14:31:14.616Z

Link: CVE-2023-2561

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T06:26:09.676Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-07-12T05:15:09.097

Modified: 2026-04-08T19:18:17.160

Link: CVE-2023-2561

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses