CVE-2024-8437

CVSS V2 None CVSS V3 None

Description

The WP Easy Gallery – WordPress Gallery Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on several functions hooked via AJAX like wpeg_settings and wpeg_add_gallery in all versions up to, and including, 4.8.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to modify galleries.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2024-8437

Assigner
Wordfence

Vulnerability Status
PUBLISHED

Published Version
2024-09-24T07:30:45.969Z

Last Modified Date
2024-09-24T13:36:43.314Z

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-862	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/862.html

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c8bd5021-4895-4b0e-b517-186959f76095?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-easy-gallery/trunk/wp-easy-gallery.php#L42

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8437
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-8437

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2024-10-06 10:49:13				Added to TrackCVE