# CVE-2024-8437: Missing authorization in WP Easy Gallery – WordPress Gallery Plugin

> Authenticated subscribers can modify galleries due to missing capability checks in AJAX functions, requiring plugin updates.

- **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:** 24 Sep 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-6pm7-68mw-p76q

## What is CVE-2024-8437?

CVE-2024-8437 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in hahncgdev WP Easy Gallery – WordPress Gallery Plugin, published on 24 Sep 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The WP Easy Gallery – WordPress Gallery Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on several functions hooked via AJAX like wpeg_settings and wpeg_add_gallery in all versions up to, and including, 4.8.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to modify galleries.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8437?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Plugingarden Wp Easy Gallery.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-8437?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8437 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-8437 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8437 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in hahncgdev WP Easy Gallery – WordPress Gallery Plugin

- [CVE-2024-8436](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8436/): WP Easy Gallery – WordPress Gallery Plugin <= 4.8.5 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2024-9018](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9018/): WP Easy Gallery <= 4.8.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection via key Parameter (high 8.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-8437 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-8437 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in hahncgdev WP Easy Gallery – WordPress Gallery Plugin, published on 24 Sep 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8437 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: hahncgdev WP Easy Gallery – WordPress Gallery Plugin. 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-2024-8437/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8437/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8437
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8437
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-8437

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8437/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.