CVE-2022-4163 - 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_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.

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_10
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/de0d7db7-f911-4f5f-97f6-885ca60822d1

History

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:15:00 +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: 2022-12-26T12:28:05.085Z

Updated: 2025-04-14T14:19:31.814Z

Reserved: 2022-11-28T15:03:43.122Z

Link: CVE-2022-4163

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:34:48.814Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-26T13:15:13.403

Modified: 2025-04-14T15:15:23.080

Link: CVE-2022-4163

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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