CVE-2023-2561 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting the Gallery Metabox for WordPress plugin, versions up to and including 1.5. It allows unauthorized data modification due to a missing capability check in the gallery_remove function, enabling subscriber-level attackers to alter galleries on posts and pages. The CVSS score is 4.3 (medium), indicating a low attack complexity and the potential for limited data integrity impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gallery-metabox_project:gallery-metabox:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.