Contest Gallery < 19.1.5.1 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection
CVE-2022-4156

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Contest Gallery
Contest Gallery Pro
Vendor
CVE Published:
26 December 2022

Summary

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.

Affected Version(s)

Contest Gallery 0 < 19.1.5.1

Contest Gallery Pro 0 < 19.1.5.1

References

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

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
None
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Kunal Sharma (University of Kaiserslautern)
Daniel Krohmer (Fraunhofer IESE)
WPScan
.