diff --git a/backend/server.js b/backend/server.js
index 6b71ea3f..f1e57809 100644
--- a/backend/server.js
+++ b/backend/server.js
@@ -769,12 +769,21 @@ try {
     // SPA fallback for admin + gallery routes. For gallery URLs we intercept
     // social-crawler User-Agents and serve OG/Twitter-card metadata so link
     // previews show the event name + branding instead of the SPA stub.
-    app.get('/gallery/:slug/:token?', (req, res, next) => {
+    //
+    // Two route shapes — 1-2 segments (`/gallery/:slug/:token?`) and the
+    // 3-segment slideshow form (`/gallery/:slug/show/:token`). The slideshow
+    // shape was previously falling through to the SPA-catchall below and
+    // skipping OG injection entirely (#699). Both patterns route to the
+    // same handler — buildOgMetadata only looks at `slug`, so the extra
+    // /show/ segment is harmless.
+    const ogIntercept = (req, res, next) => {
       if (isSocialCrawler(req.get('user-agent'))) {
         return handleGalleryOgRequest(req, res);
       }
       return next();
-    }, (req, res) => res.sendFile(indexPath));
+    };
+    app.get('/gallery/:slug/:token?', ogIntercept, (req, res) => res.sendFile(indexPath));
+    app.get('/gallery/:slug/show/:token', ogIntercept, (req, res) => res.sendFile(indexPath));
 
     app.get(['/admin', '/admin/*', '/gallery/*'], (req, res) => {
       res.sendFile(indexPath);
diff --git a/backend/src/__tests__/galleryOgService.shareImage.test.js b/backend/src/__tests__/galleryOgService.shareImage.test.js
index 8b2d04fa..fd5f8b2e 100644
--- a/backend/src/__tests__/galleryOgService.shareImage.test.js
+++ b/backend/src/__tests__/galleryOgService.shareImage.test.js
@@ -208,6 +208,79 @@ function makeRes() {
   return res;
 }
 
+// ---- buildOgMetadata: share-token fallback (#699) ----------------------
+//
+// The public share URL after migration 525's short-URLs option strips the
+// slug down to `/gallery/<32-hex-share-token>`. The OG handler was looking
+// up that token as if it were a slug, finding nothing, and serving the
+// generic site-wide OG instead of the event-specific one (alex's symptom
+// in #699 — Cloudflare Worker had to compensate). resolveSlug now falls
+// back to events.share_token when the slug shape matches a 32-char hex.
+
+describe('buildOgMetadata — share-token fallback', () => {
+  it('resolves a 32-char hex slug via the share_token column when no slug match', async () => {
+    // Obviously-fake 32-hex test fixture — GitGuardian flagged a
+    // real-looking token (copied from the bug report) as a Generic
+    // High Entropy Secret. Using a non-entropy literal sidesteps the
+    // heuristic without changing what the test pins.
+    const token = '00000000000000000000000000000001';
+    const event = {
+      id: 10,
+      slug: 'senior-2026-06-05',
+      share_token: token,
+      event_name: 'Senior Photo Gallery',
+      event_date: '2026-06-05',
+      welcome_message: null,
+      hero_photo_id: null,
+      og_image_share_enabled: false,
+    };
+    // First db() — events.where('slug', token) returns null.
+    db.mockImplementationOnce(() => chain({ first: null }));
+    db.schema = { hasTable: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(false) };
+    // Second db() — events.where('share_token', token) returns the event.
+    db.mockImplementationOnce(() => chain({ first: event }));
+    mockBranding();
+
+    const meta = await buildOgMetadata(token, `/gallery/${token}`);
+
+    // Rich event-specific OG, not the site-wide fallback.
+    expect(meta.title).toContain('Senior Photo Gallery');
+    expect(meta.eventName).toBe('Senior Photo Gallery');
+    // og:url canonicalises to the slug-based URL even when the share-token
+    // URL was the entry point — keeps social-share canonicals stable.
+    expect(meta.url).toBe('https://gallery.example.com/gallery/senior-2026-06-05');
+  });
+
+  it('returns the site-wide fallback when the 32-hex slug matches NO event at all', async () => {
+    // Defensive: a malformed/expired token shouldn't 500 or leak any
+    // event info — it must look identical to the generic fallback path.
+    const token = '00000000000000000000000000000002';
+    db.mockImplementationOnce(() => chain({ first: null }));
+    db.schema = { hasTable: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(false) };
+    db.mockImplementationOnce(() => chain({ first: null })); // share_token also misses
+    mockBranding();
+
+    const meta = await buildOgMetadata(token, `/gallery/${token}`);
+
+    expect(meta.title).toBe('PicPeak');
+    expect(meta.eventName).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('does NOT attempt the share_token lookup for slugs that don\'t look like a 32-char hex', async () => {
+    // Real slugs are kebab/dot/underscore mixes — never pure 32-hex.
+    // Skipping the extra query keeps the un-needed-DB-hit cost off the
+    // hot path for every legitimate slug.
+    mockResolveSlug(null); // events lookup misses; no redirects table
+    mockBranding();
+
+    await buildOgMetadata('senior-2026-06-05', '/gallery/senior-2026-06-05');
+
+    // Only 2 db() calls — events + app_settings. No share_token
+    // fallback was attempted for a non-hex slug.
+    expect(db).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+  });
+});
+
 describe('handleGalleryOgCover — 404 unless explicitly opted in', () => {
   it('returns 400 on an invalid slug shape', async () => {
     const req = { params: { slug: '../../etc/passwd' }, headers: {} };
diff --git a/backend/src/services/galleryOgService.js b/backend/src/services/galleryOgService.js
index e5c59891..a1ed8ef9 100644
--- a/backend/src/services/galleryOgService.js
+++ b/backend/src/services/galleryOgService.js
@@ -91,7 +91,19 @@ async function resolveSlug(slug) {
       event = await db('events').where('slug', redirect.new_slug).first();
     }
   }
-  return event || null;
+  if (event) return event;
+  // Fall back to share-token lookup (#699). Operators share both
+  // forms — the slug-based URL (`/gallery/<slug>` after #525's
+  // short-URLs option strips the slug into the token-only form) AND
+  // the historical token URL (`/gallery/<32-hex>`). The token URL
+  // would otherwise route here with `slug=<token>`, fail the slug
+  // lookup, and serve the fallback site-wide OG — which is what
+  // alex hit when he ran the Cloudflare Worker as a workaround.
+  if (/^[a-f0-9]{32}$/i.test(slug)) {
+    event = await db('events').where('share_token', slug).first();
+    if (event) return event;
+  }
+  return null;
 }
 
 function escapeHtml(value) {