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CVE-2024-9824: ImagePress - Image Gallery <= 1.2.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Post Deletion and Post Title Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-10-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The ImagePress – Image Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification and loss of data due to a missing capability check on the 'ip_delete_post' and 'ip_update_post_title' functions in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary posts and update post titles.

Affected products

• butterflymedia ImagePress – Image Gallery: through 1.2.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/image-gallery/trunk/includes/functions.php#L204
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/image-gallery/trunk/includes/functions.php#L214
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3167164/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3bce6872-34d4-4675-bce9-e1197d801bce?source=cve

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