Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 3, 2026· Updated Aug 26, 2026
CVE-2026-16057
CVE-2026-16057
Description
The Contest Gallery WordPress plugin before 30.0.7 does not perform per-object capability or nonce checks in one of its post-deletion handlers, gating it only by a coarse role-membership test, which allows any Author-level or higher user to permanently delete arbitrary posts, pages, and other content they do not own.
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Affected products
1- Range: <30.0.7
Patches
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