Vulnerability · Published Nov 29, 2021 · Assigned by WPScan
CVE-2021-24915Contest Gallery < 13.1.0.6 - Missing Access Controls to Unauthenticated SQL injection / Email Address Disclosure
Critical 9.8
In plain English
A critical-severity SQL injection in Contest Gallery – Photo Contest Plugin for WordPress from Unknown. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 12.0% (higher than 96% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Nuclei.
Official description
The Contest Gallery WordPress plugin before 13.1.0.6 does not have capability checks and does not sanitise or escape the cg-search-user-name-original parameter before using it in a SQL statement when exporting users from a gallery, which could allow unauthenticated to perform SQL injections attacks, as well as get the list of all users registered on the blog, including their username and email address
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Contest Gallery – Photo Contest Plugin for WordPress | 13.1.0.6 – before 13.1.0.6 |
Weakness: CWE-89
References
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/45ee86a7-1497-4c81-98b8-9a8e5b3d4fac x_refsource_MISC
- https://gist.github.com/tpmiller87/6c05596fe27dd6f69f1aaba4cbb9c917 x_refsource_MISC