# CVE-2025-14288: Missing authorization in Mixed Media Gallery Blocks

> Authenticated contributors can modify arbitrary plugin settings due to insufficient capability checks in the AJAX handler.

- **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:** 13 Dec 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-65gc-f272-q9p7

## What is CVE-2025-14288?

CVE-2025-14288 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in gallerycreator Mixed Media Gallery Blocks, published on 13 Dec 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Gallery Blocks with Lightbox. Image Gallery, (HTML5 video , YouTube, Vimeo) Video Gallery and Lightbox for native gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of plugin settings in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.0. This is due to the plugin using the `edit_posts` capability check instead of `manage_options` for the `update_option` action type in the `pgc_sgb_action_wizard` AJAX handler. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to modify arbitrary plugin settings prefixed with `pgc_sgb_*`.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-14288?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-14288?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-14288 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-14288 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14288 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-14288 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-14288 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in gallerycreator Mixed Media Gallery Blocks, published on 13 Dec 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-2025-14288 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: gallerycreator Mixed Media Gallery Blocks. 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-2025-14288/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14288/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14288
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14288
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-14288

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14288/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.