7.5
/ 10
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Description
The Contest Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'form_input' parameter in versions up to, and including, 28.1.6. This is due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query inside the unauthenticated 'post_cg_gallery_form_upload' AJAX action (specifically the 'cb' branch of the included users-upload-check.php, where $f_input_id is concatenated unquoted into 'SELECT Field_Content FROM ... WHERE id = $f_input_id'). The endpoint is gated only by a public frontend nonce ('cg1l_action' / 'cg_nonce') that is exposed in the page source of any public gallery page. 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.
Basic Information
ID
CVE-2026-8912
Source
Wordfence
Published
May 19, 2026 at 11:18
Affected Product
Vendor
contest-gallery
Product
Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe
Affected Versions
contest-gallery Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe 0
CWE Classification
References
- www.wordfence.com /threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/71f2f8c4-00ee-4ab4-b0e0-9ddac46818b3
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/contest-gallery/tags/28.1.5/v10/v10-frontend/user_upload/users-upload-check.php
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/contest-gallery/tags/28.1.5/v10/v10-frontend/user_upload/users-upload-check.php
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/contest-gallery/tags/28.1.5/ajax/ajax-functions-frontend.php
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/contest-gallery/tags/28.1.5/functions/frontend/cg-general-frontend.php