Contest Gallery – Upload, Vote & Sell with PayPal and Stripe: A security weakness
Contest Gallery – Upload, Vote & Sell with PayPal and Stripe is affected by a security weakness. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Contest Gallery – Upload, Vote & Sell with PayPal and Stripe
- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Oct 11, 2025
This CVE was published Oct 11, 2025 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Contest Gallery – Upload, Vote & Sell with PayPal and Stripe to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Contest Gallery – Upload, Vote & Sell with PayPal and Stripe plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CSV Injection in all versions up to, and including, 27.0.3 via gallery submissions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to embed untrusted input into exported CSV files, which can result in code execution when these files are downloaded and opened on a local system with a vulnerable configuration.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N