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CVE-2026-1291: Meow Gallery <= 5.4.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Author+) Shortcode creation

• 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: 2026-06-13 · updated 2026-07-23
• Weakness: CWE-639

Description

The Meow Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the REST API endpoint /wp-json/meow-gallery/v1/save_shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 5.4.4 This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to arbitrarily create or overwrite existing gallery shortcode records by supplying a user-controlled id value. The endpoint performs database update operations without verifying that the requesting user is authorized to modify the referenced gallery record or create their own.

Affected products

• tigroumeow Meow Gallery: through 5.4.4

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/meow-gallery/trunk/classes/rest.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3469543/meow-gallery
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3469543/meow-gallery/trunk/classes/rest.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fmeow-gallery/tags/5.4.4&new_path=%2Fmeow-gallery/tags/5.4.5
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/meow-gallery/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3386ea07-9c61-4b54-a451-1178ca6325cb?source=cve

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