Description
The Contest Gallery WordPress plugin before 30.0.7 does not route its front-end login through the standard WordPress authentication flow, issuing an authentication cookie directly after the password check, which bypasses installed brute-force-protection and two-factor-authentication Contest Gallery WordPress plugin before 30.0.7 and enables unlimited, unthrottled password guessing against any account (including administrators) up to full account takeover.
Published: 2026-08-05
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History

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Contest-gallery
Contest-gallery contest Gallery
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Weaknesses CWE-287
Vendors & Products Contest-gallery
Contest-gallery contest Gallery
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description The Contest Gallery WordPress plugin before 30.0.7 does not route its front-end login through the standard WordPress authentication flow, issuing an authentication cookie directly after the password check, which bypasses installed brute-force-protection and two-factor-authentication Contest Gallery WordPress plugin before 30.0.7 and enables unlimited, unthrottled password guessing against any account (including administrators) up to full account takeover.
Title Contest Gallery < 30.0.7 - Unauthenticated Login-Protection and 2FA Bypass via post_cg_login
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Contest-gallery Contest Gallery
Wordpress Wordpress
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-05T06:00:12.744Z

Reserved: 2026-07-17T12:05:43.862Z

Link: CVE-2026-16055

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Updated: 2026-08-05T07:30:16Z

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