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.
Published: 2026-08-03
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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

Type Values Removed Values Added
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
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Contest-gallery Contest Gallery
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

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

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

Link: CVE-2026-16057

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Updated: 2026-08-03T07:30:04Z

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