farazfrank Filter Gallery Plugin up to 1.1.4 on WordPress authorization

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in farazfrank Filter Gallery Plugin up to 1.1.4. The impacted element is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to authorization. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-89138. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in farazfrank Filter Gallery Plugin up to 1.1.4 and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-639. The system's authorization functionality does not prevent one user from gaining access to another user's data or record by modifying the key value identifying the data. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The Filter Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.4. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to overwrite the title and content of arbitrary WordPress posts, write the _wp_attachment_image_alt meta key on arbitrary posts, and create or overwrite arbitrary ufg_gallery_* options.

The advisory is shared at wordfence.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-89138 since 09/11/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/18/2026).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• farazfrank

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• Filter Gallery Plugin

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• 1.1.0
• 1.1.1
• 1.1.2
• 1.1.3
• 1.1.4

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