HIGH
CVE-2026-16055
CVSS
7.5
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.
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-287
Improper Authentication
EPSS Score
0.3%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
23.4th percentile
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