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CVE-2024-30236: WordPress Contest Gallery plugin <= 21.3.4 - SQL Injection vulnerability

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 39/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.63% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 50.1% of all records.
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: Wasiliy Strecker / ContestGallery developer Contest Gallery 21.3.5.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Wasiliy Strecker / ContestGallery developer Contest Gallery 21.3.5 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability in Wasiliy Strecker / ContestGallery developer Contest Gallery contest-gallery.This issue affects Contest Gallery: from n/a through <= 21.3.4.

CriticalCVSS 9.9 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Mar 28, 2024
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.6% · 50th percentile

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Action score

39

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
39 / 40 · 9.9 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.6%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
9.9
CNA · Patchstack
8.5
1.4 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:L

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
contest-gallerycontest gallery

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • contest-gallery contest gallerybefore 21.3.5

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Patchstack). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Wasiliy Strecker / ContestGallery developer Contest Gallery

    • up to and including 21.3.4affectedfixed in 21.3.5

Same product

contest-gallery: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2024-11103Contest Gallery <= 24.0.7 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Password Reset to Privilege Escalation/Account Takeover
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2024-10687Photos, Files, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Ecommerce Contest Gallery – Upload, Vote, Sell via PayPal, Social Share Buttons <= 24.0.3 - Unauthenticated
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2024-30238WordPress Photos and Files Contest Gallery plugin <= 21.3.2 - SQL Injection vulnerability
    35Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2024-24887Feb 12, 2024 · WordPress Contest Gallery Plugin <= 21.2.8.4 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
    35Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2024-1487Mar 11, 2024 · Photos and Files Contest Gallery < 21.3.1 - Author+ Stored Cross Site Scripting
    21Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2024-30428Mar 29, 2024 · WordPress Contest Gallery plugin <= 24.0.3 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability
    24Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
Wasiliy Strecker / ContestGallery developer Contest Gallery21.3.5Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2024-10687222 days apartPhotos, Files, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Ecommerce Contest Gallery – Upload, Vote, Sell via PayPal, Social Share Buttons <= 24.0.3 - Unauthenticated
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2024-302381 days apartWordPress Photos and Files Contest Gallery plugin <= 21.3.2 - SQL Injection vulnerability
    35Monitor
  • CVE-2022-4156458 days apartContest Gallery < 19.1.5.1 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection
    30Monitor
  • CVE-2022-4158458 days apartContest Gallery < 19.1.5 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection
    30Monitor
  • CVE-2025-22693312 days apartWordPress Contest Gallery plugin <= 25.1.0 - SQL Injection vulnerability
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2022-4150458 days apartContest Gallery < 19.1.5 - Author+ SQL Injection
    26Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted

Impact can extend beyond the vulnerable component (scope changes).

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-89 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-primary

Root cause

The query text is built by concatenating user input. The database cannot tell where the data ends and the command begins.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-89 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

ts
const owner = req.query.owner;const rows = await db.query(  "SELECT * FROM files WHERE owner = '" + owner + "'");

Fixed

ts
const owner = req.query.owner;const rows = await db.query(  "SELECT * FROM files WHERE owner = $1",  [owner]);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

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