CVE-2022-4165 - 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_order POST parameter before concatenating it to an SQL query in order-custom-fields-with-and-without-search.php. 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.

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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References

Link	Providers
https://bulletin.iese.de/post/contest-gallery_19-1-4-1_17
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/857aba7d-fccd-4672-b734-ab228440dcc0

History

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:15:00 +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: 2022-12-26T12:28:01.816Z

Updated: 2025-04-11T23:20:05.228Z

Reserved: 2022-11-28T15:03:54.057Z

Link: CVE-2022-4165

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:34:48.816Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-26T13:15:13.527

Modified: 2025-04-12T00:15:17.730

Link: CVE-2022-4165

Redhat

No data.

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