7.1High
CVE-2026-90978
The Filter Gallery WordPress plugin before 1.1.5 does not verify the nonce on several of its AJAX handlers when the nonce field is omitted, and applies no capability check, allowing low-privileged users to overwrite the content of arbitrary posts and delete the Filter Gallery WordPress plugin before 1.1.5's stored gallery options.
What this means for your business
- An attacker can use it remotely, over a network, with an ordinary user login, and without anyone at your company clicking anything.
- FIRST's prediction model gives it a 0.1% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 3% of all known flaws.
What to do
- 1Ask your IT team or provider whether any of your systems use the affected product.
- 2If you do, follow the vendor's guidance. No patch reference has been published yet.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 7.1 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L- Weakness
- CWE-284
- Assigned by
- contact@wpscan.com
Dates
- Published
- 2026-09-18
- Last modified
- 2026-09-18
- Sources
- NVD