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CVE-2025-14170: Vimeo SimpleGallery <= 0.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Plugin Settings Modification

• 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: 2025-12-12 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Vimeo SimpleGallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 0.2. This is due to missing authorization checks on the `vimeogallery_admin` function hooked to `admin_menu`. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to modify arbitrary plugin settings via the `action` parameter.

Affected products

• stiand Vimeo SimpleGallery: through 0.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vimeo-simplegallery/tags/0.2/vimeo_simplegallery.php#L22
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vimeo-simplegallery/trunk/vimeo_simplegallery.php#L22
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0bb28557-7023-481f-a05b-0b9a22d7a456?source=cve

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