CVE-2021-24915
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…
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EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 12.0%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
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
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 12.00% probability · 96th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-89
- Affected
- contest gallery/contest gallery
- Source
- contact@wpscan.com
EPSS 12.0% since 3 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://gist.github.com/tpmiller87/6c05596fe27dd6f69f1aaba4cbb9c917Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/45ee86a7-1497-4c81-98b8-9a8e5b3d4facExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://gist.github.com/tpmiller87/6c05596fe27dd6f69f1aaba4cbb9c917Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/45ee86a7-1497-4c81-98b8-9a8e5b3d4facExploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.