Gallery Widget

Gallery Widget has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2025; it remains unpatched as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 6.5, and the most serious one scores 6.5 out of 10.

The most common weakness is SQL Injection, behind 1 of the records (100%).

The one issue recorded for Gallery Widget has no published fix yet, which makes virtual patching the only reliable mitigation. The oldest unresolved one dates back to 2025.

All of these findings were reported by ch4r0n. Gallery Widget is installed on roughly 400 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 3.1.0.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSMedium

6.5/ 10

Patch Coverage0%

Open

Fixed

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Most severe open issueCVSS 6.5CVE-2025-28969

Gallery Widget <= 1.2.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection

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Vulnerability Records

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2025-07-04 00:00	Gallery Widget <= 1.2.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection Gallery Widget <= 1.2.1	`CVE-2025-28969`	6.5 Medium	ch4r0n	No

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Plugin Profile

Latestv1.2.1

Gallery Widget

Author

cybio

4.0(2)

80/100

Last Updated

2011-03-18 (16y ago)

Active Installs

400+

Downloads

83,891

Requires WP

2.8+

Requires PHP

Tested up to

WP 3.1.0

Created

2008-05-16 (19y ago)

Gallery Widget is a simple plugin that let you show the latest/random images of the wordpress media gallery inside a widget, directly in your templates (it is possible to choose some categories to be included/excluded) or in posts/pages using a shortcode (see faq on how to use them). For more information on how to use this plugin see splash 😉 Please report bugs and/or feature-request to the ticket-system: TicketSystem/Wiki. For Support, please use the forum. Latest development news: Twitter.

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