CVE-2022-4156

The Contest Gallery WordPress plugin before 19.1.5.1, Contest Gallery Pro WordPress plugin before 19.1.5.1 do not escape the user_id POST parameter before concatenating it to an SQL query in ajax-functions-backend.php. This may allow malicious users with at least author privilege to leak sensitive information from the site's database.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.5 High

Status

Modified - contact@wpscan.com

Published

2022-12-26

Last modified

2025-04-14

Affected products

• Contest Gallery (Contest-gallery)
• Contest Gallery (Unknown)
• Contest Gallery Pro (Unknown)

References

• https://bulletin.iese.de/post/contest-gallery_19-1-4-1_1
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/254f6e8b-5fa9-4d6d-8e0e-1a4cae18aee0