CVE-2026-16055 — Contest Gallery < 30.0.7 - Unauthenticated Login-Protection and 2FA Bypass via post_cg_login

CVE-2026-16055

Contest Gallery < 30.0.7 - Unauthenticated Login-Protection and 2FA Bypass via post_cg_login PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Unknown / Contest Gallery	affected 0 before 30.0.7

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

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

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.

No references supplied.