CVE-2025-11254 Contest Gallery – Upload, Vote & Sell with PayPal and Stripe <= 27.0.3 - Unauthenticated CSV Injection
Unauthenticated attackers can inject malicious formulas into CSV exports, leading to code execution when opened in vulnerable spreadsheet applications.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-11254?
CVE-2025-11254 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in contest-gallery Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe, published on 11 Oct 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-1236
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-11254?
How do I fix CVE-2025-11254?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-11254 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.
Is CVE-2025-11254 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-11254 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-3c74-p5qr-hhhx.