CVE-2021-24915 is a critical SQL injection vulnerability affecting the Contest Gallery WordPress plugin versions prior to 13.1.0.6. It allows unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious SQL queries due to a lack of capability checks and improper sanitization of the 'cg-search-user-name-original' parameter during user export. This flaw carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical) and an EPSS score indicating high exploitability, as it can lead to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, including the exfiltration of all registered user usernames and email addresses. While there is no evidence of active exploitation in the wild or Metasploit modules, Nuclei templates exist for detection, and the vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 13.1.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:contest_gallery:contest_gallery:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.