CVE-2026-12165

HIGHPre-NVD 8.88.8—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 8.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-06-17. a secondary CVSS source baseline 8.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
8.8
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: 0%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

The Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 30.0.2 via the RegistryUserRole parameter. This is due to the plugin's admin menu being registered at the edit_posts capability level — granting Contributor-level users access to the plugin's admin pages and a valid cg_admin nonce — while the option-saving handler in change-options-and-sizes.php performs no current_user_can() capability check beyond check_admin_referer('cg_admin'), and the RegistryUserRole value is processed only through sanitize_text_field() and htmlentities() without restriction to an allowlist of permitted role names. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to overwrite the plugin's stored RegistryUserRole option with administrator, which the cg_create_wp_user_from_google_user function then reads back from the contest_gal1ery_registry_and_login_options database table without any allowlist validation and passes directly to wp_update_user(), effectively promoting a newly registered Google sign-in account to Administrator.

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
8.8(high)
EPSS
32.7%
KEV
Not listed

Published

June 17, 2026

Last Modified

June 17, 2026

References (6)

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-12165(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 36× in last 7d / 103× in last 30d)

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-12165?
CVE-2026-12165 is a high vulnerability published on June 17, 2026. The Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 30.0.2 via the RegistryUserRole parameter. This is due to the plugin's admin menu being registered at the editposts…
When was CVE-2026-12165 disclosed?
CVE-2026-12165 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on June 17, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-12165 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-12165 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 32.7% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-12165?
CVE-2026-12165 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-12165?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-12165, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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