Gallery Block (Meow Gallery), CVE-2026-1291
- CVE, Research URL
- Home page URL
- Application
- Published on
- Jun 13, 2026
- Research Description
- 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 that the requesting user is authorized to modify the referenced gallery record or create their own.
- Affected versions
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max 5.4.5.
- Status
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vulnerable