CVE-2024-43283

Contest Gallery <= 23.1.2 - Unauthenticated Information Exposure

2024-08-16 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 23.1.3
Affected Plugin: Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe
Affected Version: <= 23.1.2
CVSS: 5.3Medium
Weakness type: CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE: CVE-2024-43283

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At a glance

CVE-2024-43283 is a medium-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the Contest Gallery WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 23.1.2. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 23.1.3; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed August 2024, reported by Joshua Chan.

Vulnerability Overview

The Photos, Files, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Ecommerce Contest Gallery – Upload, Vote, Sell via PayPal, Social Share Buttons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 23.1.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract data like comment user IDs and IP Addresses.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Reaching this weakness in Contest Gallery <= 23.1.2 takes no account at all. Sensitive information exposure means data the application intended to keep internal is returned to a caller who should not be able to see it.

The disclosed data — credentials, tokens, customer records or internal paths — is usually worth more as material for a follow-up attack than as an end in itself. For Contest Gallery the fix is 23.1.3: builds <= 23.1.2 are affected, anything from 23.1.3 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 23.1.3, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: Contest Gallery 23.1.3 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-43283 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f5e400f8-35b4-4be4-bb00-c59e14ddd57f https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43283

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CVSS Vector

5.3

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityNone

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