CVE-2026-92423: CWE-200 Information Exposure in Meow Gallery
The Meow Gallery WordPress plugin before 5.5.5 does not perform a proper capability check or restrict results to the requesting user's own posts before returning post data, allowing authenticated users with Author-level access and above to disclose the titles, authors, dates and statuses of other users' draft and private posts.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
The Meow Gallery WordPress plugin prior to version 5.5.5 fails to enforce proper capability checks and does not limit returned post data to the requesting user's own posts. As a result, authenticated users with Author-level permissions or above can access metadata (titles, authors, dates, statuses) of draft and private posts owned by other users. This constitutes an information exposure vulnerability classified under CWE-200.
Potential Impact
Authenticated users with Author-level access or higher can disclose sensitive metadata about other users' draft and private posts, potentially revealing unpublished content details that should remain confidential within the WordPress environment.
Mitigation Recommendations
Upgrade the Meow Gallery plugin to version 5.5.5 or later, where this vulnerability is fixed. No other mitigation is indicated. Patch status is confirmed by the version boundary provided.
CVE-2026-92423: CWE-200 Information Exposure in Meow Gallery
Description
The Meow Gallery WordPress plugin before 5.5.5 does not perform a proper capability check or restrict results to the requesting user's own posts before returning post data, allowing authenticated users with Author-level access and above to disclose the titles, authors, dates and statuses of other users' draft and private posts.
CVSS v3.1
Score 2.7low
Affected software
Meow Gallery
Weaknesses
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
The Meow Gallery WordPress plugin prior to version 5.5.5 fails to enforce proper capability checks and does not limit returned post data to the requesting user's own posts. As a result, authenticated users with Author-level permissions or above can access metadata (titles, authors, dates, statuses) of draft and private posts owned by other users. This constitutes an information exposure vulnerability classified under CWE-200.
Potential Impact
Authenticated users with Author-level access or higher can disclose sensitive metadata about other users' draft and private posts, potentially revealing unpublished content details that should remain confidential within the WordPress environment.
Mitigation Recommendations
Upgrade the Meow Gallery plugin to version 5.5.5 or later, where this vulnerability is fixed. No other mitigation is indicated. Patch status is confirmed by the version boundary provided.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- WPScan
- Date Reserved
- 2026-09-16T09:59:30.597Z
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 6aaf7dea55bf5e2cf5adcfa4
Added to database: 09/20/2026, 06:32:10 UTC
Last enriched: 09/20/2026, 06:46:48 UTC
Last updated: 09/20/2026, 23:01:02 UTC
Views: 15
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