WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Meow Gallery < 5.5.5 - Author+ Draft and Private Post Disclosure via fetch_posts

Description

The plugin does not perform a proper capability check or restrict results to the requesting user's own posts before returning post data, allowing authenticated users with Author-level access and above to disclose the titles, authors, dates and statuses of other users' draft and private posts.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 5.5.5

References

Classification

Type
SENSITIVE DATA DISCLOSURE
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Kaan Özbek
Submitter
Kaan Özbek
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-09-18 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-09-18 (about 1 day ago)
Last Updated
2026-09-18 (about 1 day ago)

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