Vulnerability CVE-2021-24915


Published: 2021-11-29

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

Type:

CWE-89

(Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Contest gallery -> Contest gallery 

 References:
https://gist.github.com/tpmiller87/6c05596fe27dd6f69f1aaba4cbb9c917
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/45ee86a7-1497-4c81-98b8-9a8e5b3d4fac

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