High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 5, 2026· Updated Aug 26, 2026

CVE-2026-16055

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.

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Affected products

WordPress/Contest Galleryllm-fuzzy
Range: <30.0.7
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/contest-gallery

Patches

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References

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

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