Photos and Files Contest Gallery – Contact Form, Upload Form, Social Share and Voting Plugin for WordPress, CVE-2024-11103

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-11103
Home page URL: Security reports for Photos and Files Contest Gallery – Contact Form, Upload Form, Social Share and Voting Plugin for WordPress
Application: Photos and Files Contest Gallery – Contact Form, Upload Form, Social Share and Voting Plugin for WordPress
Published on: Nov 28, 2024
Research Description: The Contest Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 24.0.7. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account.
Affected versions: Min -, max 24.0.8.
Status: vulnerable