Vulnerability · Published Sep 20, 2026 · Assigned by WPScan
CVE-2026-92422Meow Gallery < 5.5.5 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via load_gallery_collection REST Route
Medium 6.5
In plain English
A medium-severity insufficient verification of data authenticity in Meow Gallery from Unknown. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 5% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official 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.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Meow Gallery | 0 – before 5.5.5 |
Weakness: CWE-345 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
References
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/17a94434-3ccc-4282-99f5-d18043673669/ exploit, vdb-entry, technical-description