CVE-2026-24964

Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe <= 28.1.2.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Server-Side Request Forgery

2026-03-10 00:00
lilmingwa13

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 28.1.2.2
Affected Plugin
Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe
Affected Version
<= 28.1.2.1
CVSS
6.4Medium
Weakness type
CWE-918 · Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
CVE
CVE-2026-24964
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At a glance

CVE-2026-24964 is a medium-severity Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in the Contest Gallery WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 28.1.2.1. It carries a CVSS score of 6.4 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. The issue is fixed in version 28.1.2.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2026, reported by lilmingwa13.

Vulnerability Overview

The Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 28.1.2.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application which can be used to query and modify information from internal services.

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 interaction from a victim user.

CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Reaching this weakness in Contest Gallery <= 28.1.2.1 takes an account at Subscriber level or above. Server-side request forgery means the application fetches a URL supplied by the caller, turning the server into a proxy for requests the attacker could not make directly.

The request originates from inside the hosting network, which is how these flaws reach cloud metadata endpoints, internal admin panels and services that trust local traffic. For Contest Gallery the fix is 28.1.2.2: builds <= 28.1.2.1 are affected, anything from 28.1.2.2 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 28.1.2.2, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

An attacker needs Subscriber access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Contest Gallery 28.1.2.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-24964https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/16bbabe5-e8cf-43fa-ae7d-326045464192https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24964

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