The Contest Gallery WordPress plugin before 30.0.7 does not perform per-object capability or nonce checks in one of its post-deletion handlers, gating it only by a coarse role-membership test, which allows any Author-level or higher user to permanently delete arbitrary posts, pages, and other content they do not own.
History

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-862
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:45:00 +0000

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

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:45:00 +0000

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Description The Contest Gallery WordPress plugin before 30.0.7 does not perform per-object capability or nonce checks in one of its post-deletion handlers, gating it only by a coarse role-membership test, which allows any Author-level or higher user to permanently delete arbitrary posts, pages, and other content they do not own.
Title Contest Gallery < 30.0.7 - Author+ Arbitrary Post Deletion via post_cg_youtube_delete_from_library
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2026-08-03T06:00:10.227Z

Updated: 2026-08-04T17:42:06.222Z

Reserved: 2026-07-17T12:05:48.224Z

Link: CVE-2026-16057

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-04T15:59:41.937Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-08-03T07:16:40.523

Modified: 2026-08-26T16:31:36.750

Link: CVE-2026-16057

cve-icon Redhat

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