Missing authorization in wpchill Modula Image Gallery – Photo Grid & Video Gallery
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-862.
Summary
The Modula Image Gallery – Photo Grid & Video Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized disclosure of private gallery contents in versions up to, and including, 3.0.1. This is due to the Modula_Meta::add_metas() function being hooked to wp_head on every frontend request and looking up any post via get_post( $_GET['modula_gallery_id'] ) without verifying the gallery's post_status or the requester's capability to read it — the gallery-side input guard is bugged (empty('modula_gallery_id') tests a nonempty string literal instead of the GET parameter, so it is always false), the only object validation is a post_type === 'modula-gallery' check, and no is_user_logged_in()/current_user_can('read_post', $gallery_id) check is performed. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to enumerate private modula-gallery posts and their member attachments and recover the image's title, description, dimensions, and original upload URL via Open Graph/Twitter meta tags emitted in the response, which then allows direct unauthenticated download of the original private image bytes.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-89406
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-vpwx-33j2-2p7h
References
Other 6
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a369dff6-feca-47cf-8511-dc75c4ffdd29?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/modula-best-grid-gallery/tags/3.0.1/includes/public/meta/class-modula-meta.php#L142
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/modula-best-grid-gallery/tags/3.0.1/includes/public/meta/class-modula-meta.php#L50
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/modula-best-grid-gallery/tags/3.0.1/includes/public/meta/class-modula-meta.php#L26
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/modula-best-grid-gallery/tags/3.0.1/includes/public/meta/social_meta.php#L8
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3697043%40modula-best-grid-gallery&new=3697043%40modula-best-grid-gallery
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Sources
- CVE-2026-89406 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-89406 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-vpwx-33j2-2p7h · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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