Vulnerability Report
Plugin Medium

Contest Gallery <= 28.1.1 - Missing Authorization

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, 28.1.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to perform an unauthorized action.

Published
Jan 09, 2026
Last Updated
Feb 10, 2026
Slug
contest-gallery
Detailed Metadata
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug
contest-gallery View on wordpress.org
CVE CVE-2026-24965
Patched Versions
28.1.2
Affected Versions
*-28.1.1
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