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.
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Contest Gallery < 30.0.7 - Author+ Arbitrary Post Deletion via post_cg_youtube_delete_from_library | |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: WPScan
Published: 2026-08-03T06:00:10.227Z
Updated: 2026-08-03T06:00:10.227Z
Reserved: 2026-07-17T12:05:48.224Z
Link: CVE-2026-16057
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