Contest Gallery – Files Upload and Contest Plugin for WordPress <= 17.0.4 - Admin+ SQL Injection

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE	Not available
CVSS	High (7.2)
Publicly Published	June 1, 2022
Last Updated	January 22, 2024

Description

The Contest Gallery – Files Upload and Contest Plugin for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the ID variable supplied via the post_contest_gallery_action_ajax AJAX action. This can only be exploited by administrative-level users and above to extract sensitive information from the database.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	contest-gallery (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 17.0.4
Patched Version	17.0.5

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