CVE-2024-11103 is a critical privilege escalation vulnerability affecting all versions up to 24.0.7 of the Contest Gallery plugin for WordPress. It allows unauthenticated attackers to reset arbitrary user passwords, including administrators, due to improper identity validation during password updates, leading to account takeover. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, resulting in complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) has been observed, and community discussion is minimal, its high FAUCET Risk Score of 77/100 indicates significant potential danger.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 24.0.8CPE 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.
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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.