Video Gallery Block – Display your videos as a gallery in a professional way Security & Risk Analysis

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Video Gallery Block lets you create responsive YouTube, Vimeo, and HTML5 video galleries with grid layouts, filters, and lightbox in Gutenberg.

2K active installs v1.1.1 PHP 7.1+ WP 6.5+ Updated Mar 15, 2026

blockmasonry-video-galleryvideo-galleryvimeo-video-galleryyoutube-video-gallery

A · Safe

CVEs total1

Unpatched0

Last CVEJul 4, 2025

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Safety Verdict

Is Video Gallery Block – Display your videos as a gallery in a professional way Safe to Use in 2026?

Generally Safe

Score 99/100

Video Gallery Block – Display your videos as a gallery in a professional way has a strong security track record. Known vulnerabilities have been patched promptly.

1 known CVELast CVE: Jul 4, 2025Updated 19d ago

Risk Assessment

The video-gallery-block plugin v1.1.1 exhibits a generally good security posture based on the static analysis. All identified entry points, including AJAX handlers and shortcodes, appear to have proper authentication and capability checks, and no unprotected entry points were found. The code demonstrates strong adherence to secure coding practices with 100% of SQL queries using prepared statements and all output being properly escaped. There are no file operations or external HTTP requests, further reducing the attack surface. Taint analysis also shows no identified vulnerabilities related to unsanitized paths.

Key Concerns

Past medium severity vulnerability
Bundled Freemius library

Vulnerabilities

Video Gallery Block – Display your videos as a gallery in a professional way Security Vulnerabilities

CVEs by Year

1 CVE in 2025

2025

Patched Has unpatched

Severity Breakdown

Medium

1 total CVE

CVE-2025-27326medium · 6.4Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Video Gallery Block – Display your videos as a gallery in a professional way <= 1.1.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Jul 4, 2025 Patched in 1.1.1 (43d)

Code Analysis

Analyzed Mar 16, 2026

Video Gallery Block – Display your videos as a gallery in a professional way Code Analysis

Dangerous Functions

Raw SQL Queries

0 prepared

Unescaped Output

9 escaped

Nonce Checks

Capability Checks

File Operations

External Requests

Bundled Libraries

Freemius

Output Escaping

100% escaped9 total outputs

Data Flows

All sanitized

Data Flow Analysis

2 flows

handle_disabled_blocks (includes\class-vgb-rest-handler.php:31)

Source (user input) Sink (dangerous op) Sanitizer Transform Unsanitized Sanitized

Attack Surface

Video Gallery Block – Display your videos as a gallery in a professional way Attack Surface

Entry Points4

Unprotected0

AJAX Handlers 3

authwp_ajax_vgb_disabled_blocksincludes\class-vgb-rest-handler.php:17

authwp_ajax_vgbPremiumCheckerincludes\class-vgb-rest-handler.php:20

noprivwp_ajax_vgbPremiumCheckerincludes\class-vgb-rest-handler.php:21

Shortcodes 1

[video_gallery] includes\rootPlugin\inc\ShortCode.php:6

WordPress Hooks 15

actionadmin_initincludes\class-vgb-rest-handler.php:24

actionrest_api_initincludes\class-vgb-rest-handler.php:25

actionadmin_menuincludes\rootPlugin\inc\AdminMenu.php:7

filtermanage_video-gallery-block_posts_columnsincludes\rootPlugin\inc\CustomColumn.php:7

actionmanage_video-gallery-block_posts_custom_columnincludes\rootPlugin\inc\CustomColumn.php:12

actionadmin_enqueue_scriptsincludes\rootPlugin\inc\Enqueue.php:7

actioninitincludes\rootPlugin\inc\Init.php:9

filterblock_editor_settings_allincludes\rootPlugin\inc\Init.php:10

actionload-plugin-editor.phpincludes\utility\functions.php:13

actionenqueue_block_assetsindex.php:48

actionwp_enqueue_scriptsindex.php:49

actionenqueue_block_editor_assetsindex.php:50

filterdefault_titleindex.php:51

filterdefault_contentindex.php:52

filterblock_categories_allindex.php:124

Maintenance & Trust

Video Gallery Block – Display your videos as a gallery in a professional way Maintenance & Trust

Maintenance Signals

WordPress version tested6.9.4

Last updatedMar 15, 2026

PHP min version7.1

Downloads23K

Community Trust

Rating84/100

Number of ratings6

Active installs2K

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Developer Profile

Video Gallery Block – Display your videos as a gallery in a professional way Developer Profile

colorlibplugins

120 plugins · 738K total installs

trust score

Avg Security Score

99/100

Avg Patch Time

140 days

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Detection Fingerprints

How We Detect Video Gallery Block – Display your videos as a gallery in a professional way

Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.

Asset Fingerprints

Asset Paths

/wp-content/plugins/video-gallery-block/public/js/isotope.pkgd.min.js/wp-content/plugins/video-gallery-block/public/js/plyr.js/wp-content/plugins/video-gallery-block/public/css/plyr.css/wp-content/plugins/video-gallery-block/build/admin/post.js/wp-content/plugins/video-gallery-block/build/admin/post.css/wp-content/plugins/video-gallery-block/build/admin/dashboard.js/wp-content/plugins/video-gallery-block/build/admin/dashboard.css

Script Paths

build/admin/post.jsbuild/admin/dashboard.js

Version Parameters

video-gallery-block/build/admin/post.js?ver=video-gallery-block/build/admin/post.css?ver=video-gallery-block/build/admin/dashboard.js?ver=video-gallery-block/build/admin/dashboard.css?ver=

HTML / DOM Fingerprints

CSS Classes

vgb-video-gallery-block-wrapper

Data Attributes

data-vgb-id

JS Globals

vgbDisabledBlocksvgbpipecheckvgbAdmin

Shortcode Output

[video_gallery id=

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