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CVE-2024-3581: MaxGalleria <= 6.4.2 - Missing Authorization

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-05-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The MaxGalleria plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized image upload due to a missing capability check on the add_media_library_images_to_gallery function in all versions up to, and including, 6.4.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access or above, to upload arbitrary images to a gallery.

Affected products

• maxfoundry MaxGalleria: through 6.4.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/maxgalleria/trunk/maxgalleria-image-gallery.php#L95
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3070919%40maxgalleria%2Ftrunk&old=3059014%40maxgalleria%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0629798c-ede2-43ac-9ec4-2cd99cd34ae2?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/maxgalleria/trunk/maxgalleria-image-gallery.php#L95
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3070919%40maxgalleria%2Ftrunk&old=3059014%40maxgalleria%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0629798c-ede2-43ac-9ec4-2cd99cd34ae2?source=cve

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