PoC Index

CVE-2026-16057

MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 0.2%

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.

CVSS v3.1
6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 14th percentile
Published
2026-08-03
Updated
2026-08-04

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

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