CVE-2026-16056 (GCVE-0-2026-16056)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-04 06:00 – Updated: 2026-08-04 17:38
VLAI
Title
Contest Gallery < 30.0.7 - Subscriber+ OpenAI Prompt History Disclosure via post_cg_get_openai_prompts
Summary
The Contest Gallery WordPress plugin before 30.0.7 does not perform any capability or nonce check in one of its handlers, allowing any authenticated user down to Subscriber to read the site's entire stored OpenAI prompt history.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/53aec8d3-da17-41… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown Contest Gallery Affected: 0 , < 30.0.7 (semver)
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Credits
Meher Sudhakar Abbireddi WPScan
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