CVE-2022-4160 - 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_copy_id POST parameter before concatenating it to an SQL query in cg-copy-comments.php and cg-copy-rating.php. This may allow malicious users with at least author privilege to leak sensitive information from the site's database.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

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 0.00301.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

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_14
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/813de343-4814-42b8-b8df-1695320512cd

History

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2022-12-26T12:28:17.582Z

Updated: 2025-04-14T14:05:14.470Z

Reserved: 2022-11-28T15:03:25.667Z

Link: CVE-2022-4160

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:34:48.801Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-26T13:15:13.217

Modified: 2025-04-14T14:15:22.320

Link: CVE-2022-4160

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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