CVE Explorer
CVE-2026-5347
The HM Books Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in versions up to and including 4.8.0. This is due to the absence of capability checks and nonce verification in the admin_init hook that handles the permalink settings update at line 205-209 of wp-books-gallery.php. The vulnerable code checks only for the presence of the 'permalink_structure' POST parameter before updating the 'wbg_cpt_slug' option, without verifying that the request comes from an authenticated adm
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0
Affected products and versions
1 source assertion{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"WP Books Gallery – Build Stunning Book Showcases & Libraries in Minutes","vendor":"mhmrajib","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"4.8.0","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5affectedurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:398143309b8298e0cf855e600b6c8c2c99fd7389f18ca6357d40e26c05000946 · sha256:e7694568f6fa53f2… · /containers/cna/affected/0
Provider-owned CVSS observations
1 source assertion{"metric":{"baseScore":5.3,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5cvssurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:398143309b8298e0cf855e600b6c8c2c99fd7389f18ca6357d40e26c05000946 · sha256:e7694568f6fa53f2… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1
CWE assertions
1 source assertion{"cweId":"CWE-862","description":"CWE-862 Missing Authorization","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5cweurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:398143309b8298e0cf855e600b6c8c2c99fd7389f18ca6357d40e26c05000946 · sha256:e7694568f6fa53f2… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0
Source references
6 source assertions{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-books-gallery/tags/4.7.8/wp-books-gallery.php#L206"}
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{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-books-gallery/tags/4.7.8/wp-books-gallery.php#L207"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:398143309b8298e0cf855e600b6c8c2c99fd7389f18ca6357d40e26c05000946 · sha256:e7694568f6fa53f2… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-books-gallery/tags/4.8.1/wp-books-gallery.php#L207"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:398143309b8298e0cf855e600b6c8c2c99fd7389f18ca6357d40e26c05000946 · sha256:e7694568f6fa53f2… · /containers/cna/references/5
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-books-gallery/trunk/wp-books-gallery.php#L206"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:398143309b8298e0cf855e600b6c8c2c99fd7389f18ca6357d40e26c05000946 · sha256:e7694568f6fa53f2… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-books-gallery/trunk/wp-books-gallery.php#L207"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:398143309b8298e0cf855e600b6c8c2c99fd7389f18ca6357d40e26c05000946 · sha256:e7694568f6fa53f2… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/12bf1cd8-cd55-4771-b2bb-597797b1b949?source=cve"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:398143309b8298e0cf855e600b6c8c2c99fd7389f18ca6357d40e26c05000946 · sha256:e7694568f6fa53f2… · /containers/cna/references/0
Attribution and limitations
- CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →
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