Contest Gallery <= 30.0.6 — Unauthenticated Two-Factor Authentication Bypass
CVE-2026-16055Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤30.0.6Update to 30.0.7 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium5.3
- CVSS
- 5.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- 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≤ 30.0.6
- Patched in30.0.7
Update to 30.0.7 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 30.0.6. Version 30.0.7 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 30.0.7, 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 Muni Nitish Kumar Yaddala.
The Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Two-Factor Authentication Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 30.0.6. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass 2fa.
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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|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- 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
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