CVE-2022-4157 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Contest Gallery WordPress plugin before 19.1.5.1, Contest Gallery Pro WordPress plugin before 19.1.5.1 do not escape the cg_option_id POST parameter before concatenating it to an SQL query in export-votes-all.php. This may allow malicious users with administrator privileges (i.e. on multisite WordPress configurations) to leak sensitive information from the site's database.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Contest-gallery	Contest Gallery

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:contest-gallery:contest_gallery::::::wordpress::*
	cpe:2.3:a:contest-gallery:contest_gallery:::::pro:wordpress::

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References

Link	Providers
https://bulletin.iese.de/post/contest-gallery_19-1-4-1_3
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/71feec63-67a5-482e-bf77-1396c306fae6

History

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2022-12-26T12:27:57.791Z

Updated: 2025-04-11T23:27:16.019Z

Reserved: 2022-11-28T15:03:03.379Z

Link: CVE-2022-4157

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:27:54.526Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-26T13:15:13.030

Modified: 2025-04-12T00:15:17.427

Link: CVE-2022-4157

Redhat

No data.

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