CVE-2022-38135 — Broken Access Control vulnerability in Dean Oakley's Photospace Gallery plugin <

Broken Access Control vulnerability in Dean Oakley's Photospace Gallery plugin <= 2.3.5 at WordPress allows users with subscriber or higher role to change plugin settings.

01What is this vulnerability?

Broken Access Control vulnerability in Dean Oakley's Photospace Gallery plugin <= 2.3.5 at WordPress allows users with subscriber or higher role to change plugin settings.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Dean Oakley	Photospace Gallery (WordPress plugin)	<= 2.3.5

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-09-12T19:24:02.998Z
• Last modified: 2025-02-20T20:05:55.127Z

09References

• patchstack.com — https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/photospace/wordpress-photospace-ga…
• wordpress.org — https://wordpress.org/plugins/photospace/