CVE-2022-4163

Contest Gallery < 19.1.5 - Author+ SQL Injection

Severity Score

6.5

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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_deactivate and cg_activate POST parameters before concatenating it to an SQL query in 2_deactivate.php and 4_activate.php, respectively. This may allow malicious users with at least author privilege to leak sensitive information from the site's database.

El complemento de WordPress Contest Gallery anterior a 19.1.5.1 y el complemento de WordPress de Contest Gallery Pro anterior a 19.1.5.1 no escapan de los parámetros POST cg_deactivate y cg_activate antes de concatenarlos a una consulta SQL en 2_deactivate.php y 4_activate.php, respectivamente. Esto puede permitir que usuarios malintencionados con al menos privilegios de autor filtren información confidencial de la base de datos del sitio.

The Contest Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection in versions up to, and including, 19.1.4.1 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied cg_activate and cg_deactivate parameters and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level privileges or higher to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

*Credits: Kunal Sharma (University of Kaiserslautern), Daniel Krohmer (Fraunhofer IESE), WPScan

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

None

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2022-11-28 CVE Reserved
2022-11-29 CVE Published
2024-07-18 EPSS Updated
2024-08-03 CVE Updated
2024-08-03 First Exploit
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CAPEC

References (2)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC
https://bulletin.iese.de/post/contest-gallery_19-1-4-1_10	2024-08-03
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/de0d7db7-f911-4f5f-97f6-885ca60822d1	2024-08-03

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Contest-gallery Search vendor "Contest-gallery"		Contest Gallery Search vendor "Contest-gallery" for product "Contest Gallery"				< 19.1.5.1 Search vendor "Contest-gallery" for product "Contest Gallery" and version " < 19.1.5.1"		wordpress		Affected
Contest-gallery Search vendor "Contest-gallery"		Contest Gallery Search vendor "Contest-gallery" for product "Contest Gallery"				< 19.1.5.1 Search vendor "Contest-gallery" for product "Contest Gallery" and version " < 19.1.5.1"		pro, wordpress		Affected