CVE-2023-2562: Gallery-Metabox Project Gallery-Metabox

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Gallery Metabox for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the refresh_metabox function in versions up to, and including, 1.5. This makes it possible for subscriber-level attackers to obtain a list of images attached to a post.

Affected products

• Gallery-Metabox Project Gallery-Metabox: up to and including 1.5

Published 2023-07-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.