WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Contest Gallery < 34.0.1 - Unauthenticated Vote Restriction Bypass via Spoofable Client-IP and Forgeable Voter Identity

Description

The plugin does not reliably validate the visitor identity used to enforce its one-vote-per-entry restriction, trusting a client-supplied request header and an unbound client-generated token, which allows unauthenticated users to bypass the restriction and cast multiple votes for the same contest entry, inflating its vote total.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 34.0.1

References

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Original Researcher
Nicat Sultanov
Submitter
Nicat Sultanov
Submitter website
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-10-19 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-10-19 (about 1 day ago)
Last Updated
2026-10-19 (about 1 day ago)

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