Contest Gallery <= 28.1.4 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection
41Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 7.5epss 0.9%
from disclosure to weapon95 days
Published on NVDMar 2
1st PoC+95d
exploitation probability
0.9%top 42% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
4 public exploit(s)
The Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to blind SQL Injection via the ‘cgLostPasswordEmail’ and the ’cgl_mail’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 28.1.4 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database. The vulnerability's ’cgLostPasswordEmail’ parameter was patched in version 28.1.4, and the ’cgl_mail’ parameter was patched in version 28.1.5.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products
contest-gallery · Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripepublic PoCs found — 4
exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/52609unverifiedgithubgithub.com/CerberusMrXi/WP-Contest-Gallery-28.1.4-Exploit★ 1githubgithub.com/carlosalbertotuma/cve-2026-3180-poc★ 0githubgithub.com/cardosource/cve-2026-3180★ 0⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contest-gallery/tags/28.1.3/v10/v10-admin/users/frontend/login/ajax/users-login-check-ajax-lost-password.php#L12https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contest-gallery/tags/28.1.3/v10/v10-admin/users/frontend/login/ajax/users-login-check-ajax-lost-password.php#L27https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contest-gallery/tags/28.1.4/functions/general/cg-user-functions.php#L140https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contest-gallery/tags/28.1.4/v10/v10-admin/users/frontend/login/ajax/users-login-check-ajax-lost-password.php#L28https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contest-gallery/tags/28.1.5/functions/general/cg-user-functions.php#L140https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/91d52a64-8dc1-4923-be0b-06800382151e?source=cve