CVE-2024-8437: Plugingarden Wp Easy Gallery

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

Published 2024-09-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.