CVE-2026-42656

There is an unauthenticated SQL Injection vulnerability in Contest Gallery versions up to 28.1.6.

The Contest Gallery WordPress plugin before 33.0.1 does not limit the number of attempts against its front-end registration email-verification step, which relies on a short numeric PIN, allowing unauthenticated attackers to brute-force the PIN and create and activate a WordPress account bound to an email address they do not own, gaining an authenticated session.

Unauthenticated Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Contest Gallery plugin versions up to 30.0.5. An attacker can inject malicious script without authentication.

The Contest Gallery plugin for WordPress up to version 30.0.7 is vulnerable to second-order SQL injection via the cg_multiple_files_for_post and cgRealId parameters. Insufficient escaping and lack of query preparation allow authenticated attackers with author-level access to append additional SQL queries, potentially extracting sensitive information.

The Contest Gallery WordPress plugin before 30.0.7 does not route its front-end login through the standard WordPress authentication flow, issuing an authentication cookie directly after the password check, which bypasses installed brute-force-protection and two-factor-authentication. This enables unlimited, unthrottled password guessing against any account (including administrators) up to full account takeover.

The Contest Gallery WordPress plugin before version 30.0.7 fails to perform capability or nonce checks in one of its post-deletion handlers, relying only on a coarse role-membership test. This allows any Author-level or higher user to permanently delete arbitrary posts, pages, and other content they do not own.

A Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Contest Gallery plugin for WordPress versions up to 30.0.6. An unauthenticated attacker can inject a malicious script.

Contest Gallery versions up to 28.1.7 have a vulnerability that allows for the exposure of subscriber sensitive data.

Contest Gallery versions up to 28.1.7 contain an unauthenticated vulnerability that may be exploited by attackers.

The Contest Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 28.0.2. This is due to the plugin registering the `cg_check_wp_admin_upload_v10` AJAX action for both authenticated and unauthenticated users without implementing capability checks or nonce verification. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary WordPress media attachments into galleries and manipulate gallery metadata via the `cg_check_wp_admin_upload_v10` action. It does not enable an attacker to move or upload files.