Vulnerability · Published Oct 11, 2025 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2025-11254Contest Gallery – Upload, Vote & Sell with PayPal and Stripe <= 27.0.3 - Unauthenticated CSV Injection
Medium 4.3
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe from contest-gallery. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 28% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
The Contest Gallery – Upload, Vote & Sell with PayPal and Stripe plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CSV Injection in all versions up to, and including, 27.0.3 via gallery submissions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to embed untrusted input into exported CSV files, which can result in code execution when these files are downloaded and opened on a local system with a vulnerable configuration.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| contest-gallery | Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe | 0 – through 27.0.3 |
Weakness: CWE-1236 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9a0dc62c-786d-40f3-b9c9-bd199a176192?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3375891/contest-gallery/tags/28.0.0/functions/backend/render/cg-backend-gallery-general.php?old=3372123&old_path=contest-gallery%2Ftags%2F27.0.3%2Ffunctions%2Fbackend%2Frender%2Fcg-backend-gallery-general.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=/contest-gallery/tags/27.0.3&new_path=/contest-gallery/tags/28.0.0&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=