Name: CVE-2022-2597: Incorrect Authorization
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2022-09-05T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2022-2597, CWE-863, CVSS 5.4, EPSS 0.00141

The Visual Portfolio, Photo Gallery & Post Grid WordPress plugin before 2.19.0 does not have proper authorisation checks in some of its REST endpoints, allowing users with a role as low as contributor to call them and inject arbitrary CSS in arbitrary saved layouts

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.4
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Visual Portfolio Plugin	—	Update visual-portfolio plugin to version 2.19.0, or a newer patched version	May 15, 2025	Aug 15, 2022

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