Vulnerability CVE-2022-4157


Published: 2022-12-26

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-89

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

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

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