🛡️ CVE-2026-16055

🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-287 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
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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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-16055 is classified as CWE-287: Improper Authentication. The identity of the caller is not established correctly, so an attacker can act as another user.

Affected software

CVE-2026-16055 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 5 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

wpscan.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-287
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-08-05
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-08-05
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown — —

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