CVE-2025-14170 (GCVE-0-2025-14170)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-12 03:20 – Updated: 2025-12-12 03:20
VLAI?
Summary
The Vimeo SimpleGallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 0.2. This is due to missing authorization checks on the `vimeogallery_admin` function hooked to `admin_menu`. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to modify arbitrary plugin settings via the `action` parameter.
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-862 - Missing Authorization
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stiand | Vimeo SimpleGallery |
Affected:
* , ≤ 0.2
(semver)
|
Credits
Abhirup Konwar
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
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- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
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- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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