CVE-2025-11254 (GCVE-0-2025-11254)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-11 08:29 – Updated: 2025-10-14 14:11
VLAI?
Summary
The Contest Gallery – Upload, Vote & Sell with PayPal and Stripe plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CSV Injection in all versions up to, and including, 27.0.3 via gallery submissions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to embed untrusted input into exported CSV files, which can result in code execution when these files are downloaded and opened on a local system with a vulnerable configuration.
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-1236 - Improper Neutralization of Formula Elements in a CSV File
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
contest-gallery Contest Gallery – Upload, Vote & Sell with PayPal and Stripe Affected: * , ≤ 27.0.3 (semver)
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Credits
Aurélien BOURDOIS
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