Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)Weakness · CWE-352

CVE-2025-27276

HIGH · 8.8 CVSS v3.1 Published 2025-02-24
Mitigation only
No fix yet — a mitigation exists. There is no fixed release. A documented workaround reduces exposure in the meantime.
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95/100
Remediation priority · Urgent
Remotely reachable No privileges

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in lizeipe Photo Gallery ( Responsive ) photo-gallery-pearlbells allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects Photo Gallery ( Responsive ): from n/a through <= 4.0.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis · moderate confidence

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the lizeipe Photo Gallery (Responsive) plugin allows attackers to craft malicious requests that trick authenticated administrators into performing unintended actions, leading to privilege escalation. The absence of anti-CSRF tokens in sensitive admin functions enables attackers to forge state-changing requests.

MitigationImplement anti-CSRF tokens (synchronizer token pattern) on all state-changing admin operations and validate Origin/Referer headers to prevent cross-site request forgery attacks.

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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.

dbcve checks

Work through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.

  1. Locate the lizeipe Photo Gallery plugin
    Check your WordPress installation under wp-content/plugins/ for a folder named 'lizeipe-photo-gallery', 'lizeipe-photo-gallery-responsive', or similar. Also verify in WordPress admin under Plugins > Installed Plugins.
    Affected if The plugin with name containing 'lizeipe' and 'photo gallery' is installed and active.
  2. Identify the installed version
    Open the main plugin PHP file (usually plugin-name.php) and locate the version comment/header, or check the version field in the WordPress plugin admin page.
    Affected if Unable to determine version or version falls within any affected range (compare against official WordPress repository if version data becomes available).
  3. Verify admin authentication requirement
    Confirm that exploitation requires an authenticated administrator session. This is a prerequisite for CVE-2025-27276.
    Affected if The environment has active administrator sessions and the plugin is accessible to those admins.
  4. Check for anti-CSRF token implementation
    Inspect plugin source code for admin action handlers (typically in includes/admin/ or similar folders). Look for nonce verification using wp_verify_nonce or check_admin_referer in functions handling state-changing operations.
    Affected if Sensitive admin functions (settings changes, user modifications, content updates) lack nonce/token verification.

You are affected if the lizeipe Photo Gallery plugin is installed, has an active admin session, and the plugin code lacks anti-CSRF token validation in its administrative functions.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

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From vendor data
Mitigation available No clean upgrade yet — mitigate in the meantime
Mitigation

Implement anti-CSRF tokens (synchronizer token pattern) on all state-changing admin operations and validate Origin/Referer headers to prevent cross-site request forgery attacks.

Have this fixed Scoped from the published advisory
  • Consultation3.0 h
  • Implementation6.0 h
  • Testing3.0 h
  • Review / QA2.0 h
14.0 hours of engineering $2,490
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