Description
The Meow Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Attachment Alt Text (aria-label attribute) in all versions up to, and including, 5.5.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The vulnerable code path is only reachable when a gallery item is rendered as a link (i.e., link_href is non-empty), and exploitation relies on the fact that WordPress's sanitize_text_field() strips angle-bracketed tags but preserves double quotes, allowing an attacker to break out of the aria-label attribute context and inject event-handler attributes such as onclick.
Published: 2026-10-30
Score: 6.4 Medium
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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History

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 19:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Tigroumeow
Tigroumeow meow Gallery
Wordpress-extensions
Wordpress-extensions meow Gallery
Vendors & Products Tigroumeow
Tigroumeow meow Gallery
Wordpress-extensions
Wordpress-extensions meow Gallery
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description The Meow Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Attachment Alt Text (aria-label attribute) in all versions up to, and including, 5.5.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The vulnerable code path is only reachable when a gallery item is rendered as a link (i.e., link_href is non-empty), and exploitation relies on the fact that WordPress's sanitize_text_field() strips angle-bracketed tags but preserves double quotes, allowing an attacker to break out of the aria-label attribute context and inject event-handler attributes such as onclick.
Title Meow Gallery <= 5.5.1 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Attachment Alt Text (aria-label attribute)
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


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Tigroumeow Meow Gallery
Wordpress-extensions Meow Gallery
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-30T18:08:58.980Z

Reserved: 2026-05-21T18:54:00.426Z

Link: CVE-2026-9239

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-10-30T18:01:53.444Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-10-30T18:18:21.613

Modified: 2026-10-30T19:20:29.180

Link: CVE-2026-9239

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-10-30T19:15:16Z

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