CVE-2022-4156: Contest-Gallery Contest Gallery

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Contest Gallery WordPress plugin before 19.1.5.1, Contest Gallery Pro WordPress plugin before 19.1.5.1 do not escape the user_id POST parameter before concatenating it to an SQL query in ajax-functions-backend.php. This may allow malicious users with at least author privilege to leak sensitive information from the site's database.

Affected products

• Contest-Gallery Contest Gallery: before 19.1.5.1 (fixed in 19.1.5.1)

Published 2022-12-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.