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CVE-2021-24915

Contest Gallery < 13.1.0.6 - Missing Access Controls to Unauthenticated SQL injection / Email Address Disclosure

Basic Information

CVE State
PUBLISHED
Reserved Date
January 14, 2021
Published Date
November 29, 2021
Last Updated
August 03, 2024
Vendor
Unknown
Product
Contest Gallery – Photo Contest Plugin for WordPress
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
Tags
nuclei_scanner

CVSS Scores

CVSS v3.1

9.8 - CRITICAL

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

7.5

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploit Status

Exploited in the Wild
Yes (2026-03-14 00:00:00 UTC) Source

References

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

Known Exploited Vulnerability Information

Source Added Date
The Shadowserver (via CIRCL) 2026-03-14 00:00:00 UTC

Scanner Integrations

Scanner URL Date Detected
Nuclei https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2021/CVE-2021-24915.yaml 2025-04-25 00:00:00 UTC

Timeline

  • CVE ID Reserved

  • CVE Published to Public

  • Detected by Nuclei

  • Added to KEVIntel