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CVE-2022-36394: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

An authenticated SQL Injection (SQLi) vulnerability was discovered in the WordPress Contest Gallery plugin versions 17.0.4 and earlier. The vulnerability was identified on August 9, 2022, and was assigned CVE-2022-36394 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS score of 7.6 (High severity) and is classified as an SQL Injection vulnerability under the OWASP Top 10 category A1: Injection. The vulnerability requires author or higher privileges to exploit (Patchstack).

Impact

This vulnerability could allow an authenticated attacker with author or higher privileges to directly interact with the database, potentially leading to unauthorized access to sensitive information or manipulation of database contents (Patchstack).

Exploitability

The vulnerability requires authentication with author or higher privileges to exploit. The researcher minhtuanact was credited with discovering this vulnerability (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability was fixed in version 17.0.5 of the Contest Gallery plugin. Users are advised to update to version 17.0.5 or later to remediate this security issue (Patchstack, WordPress).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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