{"id":"CVE-2026-107120","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-107120","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T08:11:25.113Z","title":"The Contest Gallery WordPress plugin before 33.0.1 does not limit the number of attempts against its front-end registration email-verification step, which relies on a short numeric PIN, allowing unauthenticated attackers to brute-force the PIN and…","description":"The Contest Gallery  WordPress plugin before 33.0.1 does not limit the number of attempts against its front-end registration email-verification step, which relies on a short numeric PIN, allowing unauthenticated attackers to brute-force the PIN and create and activate a WordPress account bound to an email address they do not own, gaining an authenticated session.","published":"2026-10-10T06:16:41.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-13T20:36:01.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"contact@wpscan.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-287"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00221,"percentile":0.12581,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-10-10","score":0.00146,"percentile":0.03386}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.22%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[{"kind":"scored","label":"Newly scored","at":"2026-10-10T12:45:10.000Z","detail":{"from":null,"score":"5.3","severity":"MEDIUM","fromSeverity":null},"summary":"Now scored CVSS 5.3 MEDIUM."},{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-10T06:16:41.000Z","detail":{"score":null,"severity":null,"publishedAt":"2026-10-10T06:16:40.903Z"},"summary":"New CVE, medium severity (CVSS 5.3)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/13853303-741e-4f87-8543-d5d825d20e8e/","source":"contact@wpscan.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-107120","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}