CVE-2026-61986

Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe <= 30.0.5 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

2026-08-19 00:00
Thaer Assfour

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 30.0.6
Affected Plugin
Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe
Affected Version
<= 30.0.5
CVSS
7.2High
Weakness type
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE
CVE-2026-61986
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At a glance

CVE-2026-61986 is a high-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Contest Gallery WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 30.0.5. It carries a CVSS score of 7.2 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 30.0.6; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed August 2026, reported by Thaer Assfour.

Vulnerability Overview

The Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 30.0.5. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Reaching this weakness in Contest Gallery <= 30.0.5 takes no account at all. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.

Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For Contest Gallery the fix is 30.0.6: builds <= 30.0.5 are affected, anything from 30.0.6 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 30.0.6, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Requests carrying this pattern arrive without a session, so nothing upstream of the firewall gets a chance to reject them: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Contest Gallery 30.0.6 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-61986https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d1f308cc-2ea9-4c67-9c1b-4f2e4676b2c2https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-61986

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