CVE-2026-25035

Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe <= 28.1.2.2 - Missing Authorization

2026-03-23 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 28.1.3
Affected Plugin: Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe
Affected Version: <= 28.1.2.2
CVSS: 5.3Medium
Weakness type: CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
CVE: CVE-2026-25035

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At a glance

CVE-2026-25035 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Contest Gallery WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 28.1.2.2. 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 28.1.3; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2026, reported by daroo.

Vulnerability Overview

The Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on a function in all versions up to, and including, 28.1.2.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform an unauthorized action.

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-862: Missing Authorization

Reaching this weakness in Contest Gallery <= 28.1.2.2 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.

Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For Contest Gallery the fix is 28.1.3: builds <= 28.1.2.2 are affected, anything from 28.1.3 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 28.1.3, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Contest Gallery 28.1.3 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

Login Security
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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-25035 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/07f16cf7-94ad-4203-9d71-8e6e349d8c89 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-25035

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CVSS Vector

5.3

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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