Contest Gallery – Photo Contest Plugin for WordPress <= 13.1.0.5 - SQL Injection

9.8
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
CVE CVE-2021-24915
CVSS 9.8 (Critical)
Publicly Published April 13, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Tyler Miller

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

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Vulnerability Details for Photos, Files, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Ecommerce Contest Gallery – Upload, Vote, Sell via PayPal, Social Share Buttons

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug contest-gallery (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 13.1.0.6, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 13.1.0.5
Patched Version
  • 13.1.0.6

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