# CVE-2022-4154: Contest Gallery Pro < 19.1.5 - Admin+ SQL Injection

> Administrators on multisite WordPress configurations can exploit SQL injection to leak sensitive database information via the wp_user_id parameter.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.9 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 26 Dec 2022
- **Updated:** 14 Apr 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-hg63-3m66-v3xg

## What is CVE-2022-4154?

CVE-2022-4154 is a medium-severity SQL injection vulnerability in Unknown Contest Gallery Pro, published on 26 Dec 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Contest Gallery Pro WordPress plugin before 19.1.5 does not escape the wp_user_id GET parameter before concatenating it to an SQL query in management-show-user.php. This may allow malicious users with at administrator privileges (i.e. on multisite WordPress configurations) to leak sensitive information from the site's database.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-4154?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Contest-Gallery Contest Gallery.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-4154?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-4154 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-4154 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-4154 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Contest Gallery Pro

- [CVE-2024-11103](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-11103/): Contest Gallery <= 24.0.7 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Password Reset to Privilege Escalation/Account Takeover (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-10687](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10687/): SQL injection in Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2019-5974](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-5974/): Cross-site request forgery in Contest Gallery (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2024-32778](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-32778/): WordPress Contest Gallery plugin <= 21.3.4 - Arbitrary File Deletion vulnerability (high 8.5)
- [CVE-2024-30236](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-30236/): WordPress Contest Gallery plugin <= 21.3.4 - SQL Injection vulnerability (high 8.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-4154 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-4154 is a medium-severity SQL injection vulnerability in Unknown Contest Gallery Pro, published on 26 Dec 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-4154 exists.

Affected product: Unknown Contest Gallery Pro. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-4154/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-4154/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-4154
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4154
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-4154

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-4154/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.