CVE-2022-4158 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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_Fields POST parameter before concatenating it to an SQL query in users-registry-check-registering-and-login.php. This may allow malicious visitors to leak sensitive information from the site's database.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00693.

Exploitation poc

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Contest-gallery	Contest Gallery

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:contest-gallery:contest_gallery::::::wordpress::*
	cpe:2.3:a:contest-gallery:contest_gallery:::::pro:wordpress::

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://bulletin.iese.de/post/contest-gallery_19-1-4-1_15
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1b3b51af-ad73-4f8e-ba97-375b8a363b64

History

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2022-12-26T12:28:02.718Z

Updated: 2025-04-11T23:17:39.280Z

Reserved: 2022-11-28T15:03:13.966Z

Link: CVE-2022-4158

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:27:54.533Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-26T13:15:13.093

Modified: 2025-04-12T00:15:17.570

Link: CVE-2022-4158

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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