Justified Gallery

53 Quality Score

Active Installs

17/30

With 8,000 active installs, it is a mid-tier gallery plugin, far behind the 60,000 installs of top alternative Qi Blocks, but solid within its niche.

Update Freshness

6/25

The plugin was updated in January 2025, which is recent, but the minimum PHP 5.4 requirement is over a decade old and signals limited ongoing modernization.

User Rating

15/15

A 98 out of 100 across 206 ratings is an exceptional score and the strongest signal in this plugin's favour.

Support Health

8/15

Zero support threads opened and zero resolved means either the plugin rarely breaks or there is no functioning support channel, and we cannot tell which.

WP Compatibility

8/15

It is tested against WordPress 6.7.5 and works back to 4.6, which is broad, though the PHP 5.4 floor and modest compatibility score leave room for doubt on modern stacks.

Scores higher than 5% of indexed plugins

About

WordPress gallery plugin. Display WordPress galleries in a responsive justified image grid and a pretty lightbox.

Active Installs 8k+

Rating ★★★★½ 4.9/5

Last Updated 2025-01-27 9:25pm GMT

Requires WordPress 4.6+

Tested Up To 6.7.7

Requires PHP 5.4+

Security History

5 known vulnerabilities, all patched

5 Medium

Most recent: April 30, 2026

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Freemius <= 2.10.1 - Reflected DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via url Parameter Medium

April 30, 2026 Patched in ["1.10.0"] CVE-2024-13362

Justified Gallery <= 1.7.3 - Missing Authorization via 'dismiss_how_to_use_notice' and 'dismiss_notice' Medium

August 10, 2023 Patched in ["1.8.0"] CVE-2023-40213

Freemius SDK <= 2.5.9 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via fs_request_get Medium

July 18, 2023 Patched in ["1.8.1"] CVE-2023-33999

Justified Gallery <= 1.7.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Medium

December 23, 2022 Patched in ["1.7.1"] CVE-2022-4651

Freemius SDK <= 2.4.2 - Missing Authorization Checks Medium

March 4, 2022 Patched in ["1.5.1"] CVE-2022-4974

What It Does

Justified Gallery replaces WordPress's default image galleries with a responsive justified grid, where every row fills edge to edge regardless of image aspect ratios. It bundles its own lightbox for viewing full-size images without leaving the page, and ships with a Gutenberg block for inserting galleries in the block editor.

Who It's For

This plugin suits visual-first sites where image presentation is the primary content: photographers, artists, real estate agents, interior designers, and product or restaurant showcases. If your pages are built around dozens of images that need to look polished on every screen size without manual cropping, it solves a real problem.

Who Should Skip It

If you only post the occasional single image or a short gallery, the built-in WordPress gallery block or your theme's default styling is probably enough. Sites that need carousels, sliders, video galleries, or masonry layouts with mixed media will also want a more general-purpose gallery plugin.

The Bottom Line

Justified Gallery earns its 98/100 user rating by doing one thing, justified image grids with a built-in lightbox, and doing it well. The overall quality score of 56.13/100 is dragged down by thin support activity, an aging PHP requirement, and modest install numbers, so treat the user reviews as the strongest evidence. It is a confident pick for photographers and visual showcases, but if you need block-library breadth or modern support guarantees, Qi Blocks is the safer bet.

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