# CVE-2024-12114: Missing authorization in Gallery by FooGallery

> Authenticated attackers can update arbitrary posts and pages due to missing validation in the FooGallery WordPress plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 8 Mar 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-q2xv-553m-pcwq

## What is CVE-2024-12114?

CVE-2024-12114 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in fooplugins Gallery by FooGallery, published on 8 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The FooGallery – Responsive Photo Gallery, Image Viewer, Justified, Masonry & Carousel plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.29 via the foogallery_attachment_modal_save AJAX action due to missing validation on a user controlled key (img_id). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with granted access and above, to update arbitrary post and page content. This requires the Gallery Creator Role setting to be a value lower than 'Editor' for there to be any real impact.

Weakness: CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12114?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Fooplugins Foogallery.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-12114?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12114 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-12114 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12114 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in fooplugins Gallery by FooGallery

- [CVE-2023-6947](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-6947/): Best WordPress Gallery Plugin – FooGallery <= 2.4.16 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Directory Traversal (high 7.7)
- [CVE-2023-44244](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-44244/): WordPress FooGallery Plugin <= 2.2.44 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2023-29439](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-29439/): WordPress FooGallery Plugin <= 2.2.35 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2025-6068](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6068/): Cross-site scripting in Gallery by FooGallery (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2024-12119](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12119/): Cross-site scripting in Gallery by FooGallery (medium 6.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-12114 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-12114 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in fooplugins Gallery by FooGallery, published on 8 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12114 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: fooplugins Gallery by FooGallery. 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-2024-12114/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12114/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12114
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12114
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-12114

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