Visual Portfolio, Photo Gallery & Post Grid <= 3.8.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Missing Authorization via Multiple AJAX Actions
- ID
- WPSEC-2026-1640
- Plugin
- Gallery by Visual Portfolio (visual-portfolio)
- Affected
- all versions before 3.9.0
- Remediation
- Update to 3.9.0 or later.
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Weakness
- CWE-862
- Usage
- Plugin Medium · Affected versions Medium among sites WPSec scans, 2026-10-25
- Attack surface
- Visual Portfolio, Photo Gallery & Post Grid on WPSec AttackSurface
- Fix released
- Published
Description
The Gallery by Visual Portfolio plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access via the vp_dynamic_control_callback and vp_find_oembed AJAX actions in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.2, due to missing capability checks on handlers that only verified the 'vp-ajax-nonce' nonce, which is printed on every admin page, including the profile page any logged-in user can open. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to search the titles of draft, pending and scheduled posts of any author, list post types and terms, and make the site perform oEmbed lookups.
References
- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1640/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/visual-portfolio/tags/3.9.0/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/visual-portfolio/
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