Contest Gallery – Files Upload and Contest Plugin for WordPress <= 17.0.4 — Admin+ SQL Injection
1f9d8bbe-205f-44b6-a0c6-89b9135e6363Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤17.0.4Update to 17.0.5 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High7.2
- CVSS
- 7.2CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:HPrivileges required- High
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Weakness
- CWE-89 SQL Injection
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Contest Gallery Commerce – Upload, Vote & Sell with PayPal & Stripe contest-gallery
- Affected≤ 17.0.4
- Patched in17.0.5
Update to 17.0.5 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 17.0.4. Version 17.0.5 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Contest Gallery Commerce – Upload, Vote & Sell with PayPal & Stripe.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 17.0.5, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Contest Gallery Commerce – Upload, Vote & Sell with PayPal & Stripe to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence.
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.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in Contest Gallery Commerce – Upload, Vote & Sell with PayPal & Stripe
All 70| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High8.8 | Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Upload <34.0.3Update to 34.0.3 | CVE-2026-118041 | |
| Medium5.3 | Missing Authorization <34.0.1Update to 34.0.1 | CVE-2026-107447 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤34.0.1Update to 34.0.2 | CVE-2026-111837 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Unauthorized Account Activation ≤33.0.0Update to 33.0.1 | CVE-2026-107120 | |
| High8.8 | Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via 'baseUrlForFacebook' Parameter ≤32.0.1Update to 33.0.0 | CVE-2026-78088 |
- High8.8Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Upload
<34.0.3Update to 34.0.3
- Medium5.3Missing Authorization
<34.0.1Update to 34.0.1
- Medium6.4Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤34.0.1Update to 34.0.2
- Medium5.3Unauthenticated Unauthorized Account Activation
≤33.0.0Update to 33.0.1
- High8.8Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via 'baseUrlForFacebook' Parameter
≤32.0.1Update to 33.0.0
Same weakness (SQL Injection)
All SQL Injection| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent Header | CVE-2026-120688 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form Submission | CVE-2026-125055 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter | CVE-2026-119077 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter | CVE-2026-121518 |
- High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent Header
EZ SQL Reports Shortcode Widget and DB Backup
≤5.25.25Update to 5.26.45
- Critical9.8Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form Submission
Chatterbug Forms – Fast, Flexible WordPress Form Builder
≤1.0.2Update to 1.1
- Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter
ELEX WordPress HelpDesk & Customer Ticketing System
≤3.3.9Update to 3.4.0
- Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
Customer Reviews for WooCommerce
≤5.127.0Update to 5.128.0
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 7.2
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.
