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CVE-2026-107120: Contest Gallery < 33.0.1 - Unauthenticated Email Verification Bypass via Brute-Forceable Registration PIN
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-10-10 · updated 2026-10-13
- Weakness: CWE-287
Description
The Contest Gallery WordPress plugin before 33.0.1 does not limit the number of attempts against its front-end registration email-verification step, which relies on a short numeric PIN, allowing unauthenticated attackers to brute-force the PIN and create and activate a WordPress account bound to an email address they do not own, gaining an authenticated session.
Affected products
- Contest Gallery: before 33.0.1 — fixed in 33.0.1
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Contest Gallery 33.0.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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