CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-16055

7.5 HIGH Published 2026-08-05 Modified 2026-08-26 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2026-08-05
Last modified
2026-08-26
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-287

Description

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.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness

References