CVE-2026-16055: Unknown Contest Gallery

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Contest Gallery WordPress plugin before 30.0.7 does not route its front-end login through the standard WordPress authentication flow, issuing an authentication cookie directly after the password check, which bypasses installed brute-force-protection and two-factor-authentication Contest Gallery WordPress plugin before 30.0.7 and enables unlimited, unthrottled password guessing against any account (including administrators) up to full account takeover.

Affected products

• Unknown Contest Gallery: before 30.0.7 (fixed in 30.0.7)

Published 2026-08-05. Last modified 2026-08-26.