CVE Explorer
CVE-2026-1291
The Meow Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the REST API endpoint /wp-json/meow-gallery/v1/save_shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 5.4.4 This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to arbitrarily create or overwrite existing gallery shortcode records by supplying a user-controlled id value. The endpoint performs database update operations without verifying th
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0
Affected products and versions
1 source assertion{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Meow Gallery","vendor":"tigroumeow","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.4","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}
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Provider-owned CVSS observations
1 source assertion{"metric":{"baseScore":4.3,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
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CWE assertions
1 source assertion{"cweId":"CWE-639","description":"CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
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Source references
6 source assertions{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/meow-gallery/trunk/classes/rest.php"}
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{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3469543/meow-gallery"}
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{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3469543/meow-gallery/trunk/classes/rest.php"}
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{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fmeow-gallery/tags/5.4.4&new_path=%2Fmeow-gallery/tags/5.4.5"}
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{"url":"https://wordpress.org/plugins/meow-gallery/"}
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{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3386ea07-9c61-4b54-a451-1178ca6325cb?source=cve"}
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Attribution and limitations
- CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →
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