Contest Gallery <= 24.0.7 — Unauthenticated Arbitrary Password Reset to Privilege Escalation/Account Takeover
CVE-2024-11103Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤24.0.7Update to 24.0.8 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Critical9.8
- CVSS
- 9.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Contest Gallery Commerce – Upload, Vote & Sell with PayPal & Stripe contest-gallery
- Affected≤ 24.0.7
- Patched in24.0.8
Update to 24.0.8 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 24.0.7. Version 24.0.8 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.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 24.0.8, 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, credited to shaman0x01.
The Contest Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 24.0.7. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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| 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
Timeline
CVE published
Severity critical, CVSS 9.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
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- CVE® identifiers
- [object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- 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.
