THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2021-24915
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2021-24915

Contest Gallery vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
12.7%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
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
Affected vendor
Contest Gallery
Affected product
Contest Gallery
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2021-11-29

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 12.7% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2021-24915

  • Confirm whether Contest Gallery Contest Gallery is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2021-24915.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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