CVE-2021-24915

9.8 criticalEPSS 12%

Critical (9.8) in contest gallery contest gallery. EPSS 12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Contest Gallery WordPress plugin before 13.1.0.6 does not have capability checks and does not sanitise or escape the cg-search-user-name-original parameter before using it in a SQL statement when exporting users from a gallery, which could allow unauthenticated to perform SQL injections attacks, as well as get the list of all users registered on the blog, including their username and email address

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

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

EPSS: 12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 96% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-89
Published: 2021-11-29
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

contest_gallery:contest_gallery

References

https://gist.github.com/tpmiller87/6c05596fe27dd6f69f1aaba4cbb9c917
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/45ee86a7-1497-4c81-98b8-9a8e5b3d4fac
https://gist.github.com/tpmiller87/6c05596fe27dd6f69f1aaba4cbb9c917
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/45ee86a7-1497-4c81-98b8-9a8e5b3d4fac

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