Contest Gallery <= 21.3.4 - Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Deletion

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-32778
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published April 22, 2024
Last Updated April 29, 2024
Researcher CatFather
Description

The Photos and Files Contest Gallery – Contact Form, Upload Form, Social Share and Voting Competition Plugin for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on a function in all versions up to, and including, 21.3.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to delete arbitrary files.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug contest-gallery (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 21.3.4
Patched Version
  • 21.3.5
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