CVE-2025-12081: ACF Photo Gallery Field <= 3.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Attachment Metadata Modification

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: 2026-02-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The ACF Photo Gallery Field plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the "acf_photo_gallery_edit_save" function in all versions up to, and including, 3.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber level access and above, to modify the title, caption, and custom metadata of arbitrary media attachments.

Affected products

navzme ACF Photo Gallery Field: through 3.0

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/navz-photo-gallery/tags/3.0/includes/acf_photo_gallery_edit_save.php#L8
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/navz-photo-gallery/tags/3.0/navz-photo-gallery.php#L173
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3428006%40navz-photo-gallery&new=3428006%40navz-photo-gallery&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d52a1c67-e20d-4390-9d07-94337a31d193?source=cve

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