CVE-2025-15516VulnerabilityPublished 24 Jan 2026Updated 26 Jan 2026

CVE-2025-15516: All-in-One Video Gallery (WordPress plugin) · Missing Authorization

Affects All-in-One Video Gallery (WordPress plugin)Source CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 4.3 Medium.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

4.3Medium

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 8% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: Low
User Interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: None
Integrity: Low
Availability: None

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: Low: The attacker is authorized with (i.e., requires) privileges that provide basic user capabilities that could normally affect only settings and files owned by a user. Alternatively, an attacker with Low privileges may have the ability to cause an impact only to non-sensitive resources.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: None: There is no loss of confidentiality within the impacted component.
Integrity: Low: Modification of data is possible, but the attacker does not have control over the consequence of a modification, or the amount of modification is limited. The data modification does not have a direct, serious impact on the impacted component.
Availability: None: There is no impact to availability within the impacted component.

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 24 Jan 2026
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-25.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
plugins360All-in-One Video Gallery	Affected >=4.1.0 <=4.6.4	Fixed in–

AI-suggested

To mitigate CVE-2025-15516, organizations should: 1) Immediately update the All-in-One Video Gallery plugin to a patched version once released by plugins360. Monitor official plugin repositories and vendor advisories for updates. 2) If a patch is not yet available, implement temporary access controls to restrict Subscriber-level or lower users from accessing or triggering the vulnerable AJAX endpoint, possibly via web application firewall (WAF) rules or custom code hooks. 3) Audit user meta data for suspicious or unauthorized changes, especially focusing on fields that could influence permissions or plugin behavior. 4) Limit user registrations or enforce stricter user role assignments to reduce the number of accounts with Subscriber or higher privileges. 5) Employ principle of least privilege for user roles and review plugin configurations to minimize exposure. 6) Monitor logs for unusual AJAX requests targeting the ajax_callback_store_user_meta() function or related endpoints. 7) Educate site administrators about the risks of missing authorization checks in plugins and encourage regular security assessments of installed plugins. These steps go beyond generic advice by focusing on immediate containment, monitoring, and role management tailored to the vulnerability's specifics.

Description

The All-in-One Video Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the ajax_callback_store_user_meta() function in versions 4.1.0 to 4.6.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary string-based user meta keys for their own account.

Impact

The primary impact of CVE-2025-15516 is the unauthorized modification of user meta data for the attacker's own account. While this does not directly compromise confidentiality or availability, it undermines data integrity and could facilitate indirect attacks such as privilege escalation if the altered user meta influences access controls or plugin behavior. For example, if certain capabilities or roles are stored or influenced by user meta keys, an attacker might manipulate these to gain higher privileges or bypass restrictions. Additionally, altered user meta could disrupt plugin functionality or user experience, potentially leading to misconfigurations or inconsistent application states. Organizations running WordPress sites with this plugin are at risk of having user data integrity compromised, which could affect site reliability and trustworthiness. Since the vulnerability requires authenticated access at Subscriber level or above, the risk is limited to environments where user registration or lower privilege accounts are allowed. The absence of known exploits reduces immediate threat but does not eliminate the risk of future exploitation, especially given the widespread use of WordPress and its plugins globally.

CWE-862Missing Authorization (opens in a new tab)
Class weaknessLikelihood of exploit: HighCWE Top 25 (2025): #4OWASP Top 10 A01:2025: Broken Access Control (opens in a new tab)
The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.
Architecture and Design
Divide the product into anonymous, normal, privileged, and administrative areas. Reduce the attack surface by carefully mapping roles with data and functionality. Use role-based access control (RBAC) to enforce the roles at the appropriate boundaries.
Architecture and Design
Ensure that access control checks are performed related to the business logic. These checks may be different than the access control checks that are applied to more generic resources such as files, connections, processes, memory, and database records.
Architecture and Design · Libraries or Frameworks
Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Authorization (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V8.3.8 (opens in a new tab)
V13.4.2 (opens in a new tab)
V7.2.2 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
Exploitation of Thunderbolt Protection Flaws (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

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AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 27 Feb 2026, 12:02 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-862

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