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CVE-2025-13685: Photo Gallery by Ays <= 6.4.8 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Bulk Actions

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-12-02 · updated 2026-10-18
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Photo Gallery by Ays plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 6.4.8. This is due to missing nonce verification on the bulk action functionality in the 'process_bulk_action()' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform bulk operations (delete, publish, or unpublish galleries) via a forged request granted they can trick an administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• ays-pro Photo Gallery by Ays – Responsive Image Gallery: through 6.4.8

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gallery-photo-gallery/tags/6.4.7/includes/lists/class-gallery-photo-gallery-list-table.php#L1060
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gallery-photo-gallery/trunk/includes/lists/class-gallery-photo-gallery-list-table.php#L1060
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3404625/gallery-photo-gallery/tags/6.4.9/includes/lists/class-gallery-photo-gallery-list-table.php?old=3402336&old_path=gallery-photo-gallery%2Ftags%2F6.4.8%2Fincludes%2Flists%2Fclass-gallery-photo-gallery-list-table.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/42a14820-710d-4149-9a8d-aa84479f0980?source=cve

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