The Meow Gallery WordPress plugin before 5.5.5 does not properly sanitize a user-supplied value before concatenating it into a shortcode string that it passes to the WordPress shortcode parser on a publicly reachable endpoint, allowing unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary registered shortcodes and disclose non-public gallery content.
History

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First Time appeared Wordpress-extensions
Wordpress-extensions meow Gallery
Vendors & Products Wordpress-extensions
Wordpress-extensions meow Gallery

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Weaknesses CWE-20

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Weaknesses CWE-345
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Weaknesses CWE-20

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Description The Meow Gallery WordPress plugin before 5.5.5 does not properly sanitize a user-supplied value before concatenating it into a shortcode string that it passes to the WordPress shortcode parser on a publicly reachable endpoint, allowing unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary registered shortcodes and disclose non-public gallery content.
Title Meow Gallery < 5.5.5 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via load_gallery_collection REST Route
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2026-09-20T06:00:18.231Z

Updated: 2026-09-20T13:51:04.672Z

Reserved: 2026-09-16T09:59:23.399Z

Link: CVE-2026-92422

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-20T13:50:46.863Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-09-20T07:16:51.060

Modified: 2026-09-21T13:34:57.127

Link: CVE-2026-92422

cve-icon Redhat

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