# CVE-2024-10535: Video Gallery for WooCommerce <= 1.31 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Limited File Deletion

> Unauthenticated attackers can delete video thumbnails due to a missing capability check in the Video Gallery for WooCommerce plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 6 Nov 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-hp4m-hgpx-5799

## What is CVE-2024-10535?

CVE-2024-10535 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in nitramix Video Gallery for WooCommerce, published on 6 Nov 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Video Gallery for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the remove_unused_thumbnails() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.31. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete thumbnails in the video-wc-gallery-thumb directory.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-10535?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Martinvalchev Video Gallery for Woocommerce.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-10535?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-10535 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-10535 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-10535 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-10535 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-10535 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in nitramix Video Gallery for WooCommerce, published on 6 Nov 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-10535 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: nitramix Video Gallery for WooCommerce. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10535/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10535/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-10535
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-10535
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-10535

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10535/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.