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Unknown Contest Gallery — Contest Gallery < 30.0.7 - Author+ Arbitrary Post Deletion via post_cg_youtube_delete_from_library
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
N L H N U N H H 6.5 .0023 14.4 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Contest Gallery unspecified —
TIMELINE
Jul 17 Reserved by WPScan
Aug 3 Published (CNA: WPScan)
Aug 4 EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-16057 (Unknown Contest Gallery). Public exploit reference added.
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.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|
| July 17, 2026 | Reserved | Reserved by WPScan |
| August 3, 2026 | Published | Published (CNA: WPScan) |
| August 4, 2026 | EXPLOIT PUBLISHED | EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-16057 (Unknown Contest Gallery). Public exploit reference added. |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 1 row
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
|---|
| Unknown | Contest Gallery | — | — | — |
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This is a reference page, not a dated page of record. It assembles the complete lifecycle of CVE-2026-16057 from the CVE Program record, NVD enrichment, the CISA KEV catalog, EPSS, and OSV advisories. The box score's numbers (CVSS, EPSS, KEV status) are current as of Wednesday, August 19, 2026 UTC and are re-derived as the archive grows; only dated daily editions are immutable pages of record. The authoritative source for this identifier is cve.org.