Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate as gallery-management user
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DeliveryEnumerate other galleries' image IDs
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ExploitInvoke image delete/copy/retag handler
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ExecutionBypass missing ownership check
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ImpactDelete, exfiltrate, or re-tag victim images
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Object-level authorization, IDOR prevention
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| Exploitation Conditions | Requires an authenticated WordPress account that an administrator has explicitly granted the plugin's gallery-management capability (PR:L insider) - anonymous visitors cannot exploit it. Exploitation is limited to sites running Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes before 4.5.0 that have multiple gallery-owning users (single-owner sites have nothing to cross into). The attacker must know or enumerate image IDs belonging to other users' galleries; no user interaction is needed. Impact is confined to deleting, copying, and re-tagging images - there is no code execution or broader site compromise. |
| Impact | This is a genuine but low-severity authorization flaw, not a high-priority emergency. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N, base 4.2) already reflects modest risk: exploitation requires an authenticated account (PR:L) that an administrator has explicitly granted the plugin's gallery-management capability, so the attacker is a semi-trusted insider rather than an anonymous internet user. No EPSS score or CISA KEV entry is provided; there is no evidence of active exploitation, so the exploitation status is: publicly available exploit code exists (WPScan) but not confirmed exploited in the wild. The vendor's AC:H is debatable - image identifiers in WordPress galleries are typically sequential integers, making cross-gallery targeting straightforward, so real-world attack complexity is arguably lower (AC:L). Conversely the vendor scored A:N despite the description explicitly allowing image DELETION, which is an availability impact; I would rate A:L. Net: a real, POC-backed broken-access-control bug worth patching in multi-author photography sites, but the trust prerequisite and limited technical impact keep it well below urgent status. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | On a multi-author WordPress site, an administrator grants a contributing photographer the plugin's gallery-management capability so they can curate their own galleries. That user then enumerates image IDs belonging to other photographers' galleries and issues delete, copy, or re-tag actions against them - destroying or exfiltrating (via copy into their own gallery) another user's images. Public exploit detail is available from WPScan. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 20, 2026
Improper authorization in the WordPress plugin Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes before version 4.5.0 lets a user who has been granted the plugin's gallery-management capability delete, copy, and re-tag images that belong to other users' galleries. The flaw is an IDOR-class (CWE-639) authorization bypass that requires an authenticated WordPress account already holding that capability (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L per our independent assessment; the published score is 4.2 with a more conservative AC:H vector), so anonymous visitors cannot reach it. Publicly available exploit code exists (WPScan), but there is no confirmed active exploitation (CISA KEV) and vendor-released patched version 4.5.0 is available.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade the Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes plugin to 4.5.0 or later - this is the fixed version published by the vendor and reflected in the EUVD '0 <4.5.0' affected range; confirm the update through the WPScan entry at https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0bceb61b-6986-4669-896c-4279ecef0603/ and the NVD record at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-81653. If the upgrade cannot be applied immediately, the highest-value compensating control is to audit which accounts currently hold the plugin's gallery-management capability and revoke it from anyone who is not a fully trusted site operator (Users → Roles/capability inspection, or a capability-management plugin) - this removes the PR:L prerequisite entirely, at the cost of those users losing legitimate gallery administration until 4.5.0 is deployed. Where multiple contributors genuinely need gallery management, restrict each to a distinct role or staging site rather than granting the shared capability, and temporarily disable the plugin's image copy/re-tag/delete operations if the gallery workflow can tolerate it, accepting loss of those editorial features. Note that because the operation is object-key driven, WAF or generic input filtering is unlikely to be reliable; the two durable options remain the 4.5.0 upgrade or capability removal.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The affected component is the WordPress plugin distributed as Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes (CPE cpe:2.3:a:unknown:photo_gallery,_sliders,_proofing_and_themes:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*), tracked in the EUVD as EUVD-2026-83665 with the affected range 0 < 4.5.0. The root cause is CWE-639, Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key - commonly known as an Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR). The plugin exposes image operations (delete, copy, re-tag) that take a client-supplied image identifier, but the code checks only that the caller holds the generic gallery-management capability and never verifies that the target image actually resides in a gallery owned by that caller. Because the ownership check is bound to the caller's role rather than to the object, any action on an arbitrary image ID succeeds as long as the caller possesses the capability. This is a horizontal (same-role, cross-user) privilege escalation within WordPress sites that host multiple gallery owners; it does not cross into code execution, SQL injection, or site-wide administrative takeover, and its impact is bounded by what the image operations themselves permit.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Authenticated capability-holder (PR:L) over network; image IDs are enumerable so AC:L; copy exposes others' images (C:L), re-tag modifies (I:L), delete removes them (A:L).
Primary rating from Vendor (WPScan).
CVSS VectorVendor: WPScan
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
The Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and WordPress plugin before 4.5.0 does not verify that the user acting on an image owns the gallery it belongs to, allowing users granted its gallery-management capability by an administrator to delete, copy and re-tag any image on the site, including images in galleries belonging to other users.
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
Arbitrary file write - escalating to remote code execution on hosts that execute PHP from upload directories - affects t
Authenticated WordPress users who hold only the gallery-management capability of the plugin Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proo
Authenticated users who have been granted the plugin's gallery-management capability can overwrite the stored settings o
Missing object-level authorization in the Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes WordPress plugin before 4.5.0 allo
EUVD-2026-83665
GHSA-vpjm-x6rh-jvwr
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
Vulnrichment
Exploit-DB