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

67ae29ee-ec3d-41d2-8691-ba1c615d243dPublished · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤4.1.9Update to 4.2.0 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
High8.8
CVSS
8.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-862 Missing Authorization
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Meow Gallery meow-gallery

  1. Affected≤ 4.1.9
  2. Patched in4.2.0

Update to 4.2.0 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 4.1.9. Version 4.2.0 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Meow Gallery.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 4.2.0, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Meow Gallery to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to WPScanTeam.

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.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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≤5.5.4Update to 5.5.5
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≤5.5.1Update to 5.5.2
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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 8.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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