CVE-2025-14170
Vimeo SimpleGallery <= 0.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Plugin Settings Modification
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.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
Vimeo SimpleGallery <= 0.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Plugin Settings Modification
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.
- Record
CVE-2025-14170- CVSS 3.1
- 4.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-862
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2025-203015
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.
- Record
EUVD-2025-203015- CVSS 3.1
- 4.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-gj2h-wp43-f7w3
The Vimeo SimpleGallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in all...
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.
- Record
GHSA-gj2h-wp43-f7w3- CVSS 3.1
- 5.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-862
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
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.
- Record
CVE-2025-14170- CVSS 3.1
- 4.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-862
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2025-14170 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) in Stiand Vimeo Simplegallery, published December 12, 2025. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.22%, the 13th percentile. No source names a fixed version.
References
wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0bb28557-7023-481f-a05b-0b9a22d7a456?source=cve
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vimeo-simplegallery/trunk/vimeo_simplegallery.php
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14170
github.com/advisories/GHSA-gj2h-wp43-f7w3