CVE-2022-4157: Contest Gallery < 19.1.5 - Admin+ SQL Injection

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-12-26 · updated 2026-06-17

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.

Affected products

Contest Gallery Pro: before 19.1.5.1 — fixed in 19.1.5.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Contest Gallery Pro 19.1.5.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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