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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2022-4157
CVE-2022-4157:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
CVE-2022-4157 affects the Contest Gallery WordPress plugin versions before 19.1.5.1 and Contest Gallery Pro WordPress plugin versions before 19.1.5.1. The vulnerability was discovered by Kunal Sharma (University of Kaiserslautern) and Daniel Krohmer (Fraunhofer IESE), and was publicly disclosed on December 5, 2022 (WPScan).
Technical details
The vulnerability is an SQL injection issue that occurs because the plugins do not properly escape the cg_option_id POST parameter before concatenating it to an SQL query in the export-votes-all.php file. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS score of 4.9 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N (NVD).
Impact
This vulnerability may allow malicious users with administrator privileges (specifically in multisite WordPress configurations) to leak sensitive information from the site's database (WPScan).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 19.1.5.1 of both Contest Gallery and Contest Gallery Pro plugins. Users should update to these versions or later to mitigate the risk (WPScan).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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