WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Meow Gallery < 5.5.5 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via load_gallery_collection REST Route

Description

The plugin 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.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 5.5.5

References

Classification

Type
CONTENT INJECTION
OWASP top 10
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
JunHee CHO
Submitter
JunHee CHO
Submitter website
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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