CVE-2021-24915

critical

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

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/45ee86a7-1497-4c81-98b8-9a8e5b3d4fac

https://gist.github.com/tpmiller87/6c05596fe27dd6f69f1aaba4cbb9c917

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-11-29

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.127