CVE-2026-16055

EUVD-2026-53121

05.08.2026, 07:16

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.

Provider	Type	Base Score	Atk. Vector	Atk. Complexity	Priv. Required	Vector
NIST	Primary	7.5 HIGH	NETWORK	HIGH	LOW	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Awaiting analysis

This vulnerability is currently awaiting analysis.

Base Score

CVSS 3.x

EPSS Score

Percentile: 9%

Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-287 - Improper Authentication
When an actor claims to have a given identity, the software does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fa83e5a0-ed6a-4043-8df3-8654bb354a99/