vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: contest-gallery: CVE-2021-24915: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 13, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 29, 2026

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

Solution

contest-gallery-plugin-cve-2021-24915
Title
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