CVE-2026-3180
Published: 02 March 2026
Summary
CVE-2026-3180 is a high-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Wordpress (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 32.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SC-7 (Boundary Protection) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2026-3180 is a blind SQL injection vulnerability in the Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 28.1.4. The flaw arises from insufficient escaping of user-supplied parameters ‘cgLostPasswordEmail’ and ‘cgl_mail’, combined with inadequate preparation of existing SQL queries, allowing attackers to append additional SQL queries.
Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely with low complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation enables extraction of sensitive information from the database via blind SQL injection techniques. The CVSS v3.1 base score is 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N), with impact primarily on confidentiality and mapped to CWE-89 (SQL Injection).
Mitigation involves updating to version 28.1.4 or later for the ‘cgLostPasswordEmail’ parameter fix, and version 28.1.5 or later for the ‘cgl_mail’ parameter patch. Code changes addressing the issues are visible in the plugin's Trac repository at referenced lines in files such as users-login-check-ajax-lost-password.php and cg-user-functions.php.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-9223
Vulnerability details
The Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to blind SQL Injection via the ‘cgLostPasswordEmail’ and the ’cgl_mail’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 28.1.4 due to…
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insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database. The vulnerability's ’cgLostPasswordEmail’ parameter was patched in version 28.1.4, and the ’cgl_mail’ parameter was patched in version 28.1.5.
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
Blind SQL injection in unauthenticated public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote exploitation of the web application for database data extraction.
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Mitigating Controls
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Requires validation of user-supplied parameters like ‘cgLostPasswordEmail’ and ’cgl_mail’ to prevent blind SQL injection by blocking malicious SQL payloads.
Mandates timely identification, testing, and installation of patches such as versions 28.1.4 and 28.1.5 to remediate the SQL injection flaw in the plugin.
Enforces boundary protection via web application firewalls to monitor and block SQL injection attempts targeting vulnerable plugin parameters.