SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

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…

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 12.7%

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EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 12.7%, 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
12.70% probability · 96th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-89
Affected
contest gallery/contest gallery
Source
contact@wpscan.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.