# CVE-2024-43283: Contest Gallery - Information Disclosure

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2024-43283 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2024-43283

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Background Noise. Continuous low-level scanning or exploitation attempts are observed, mostly opportunistic and automated.
- **CVSS score:** 5.3
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** Contest Gallery
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor)
- **Tags:** wordpress, cms

## Description

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Contest Gallery.This issue affects Contest Gallery: from n/a through 23.1.2.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2024-43283](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2024-43283) is an information disclosure vulnerability in Contest Gallery versions up to 23.1.2, which could allow unauthorized actors to access sensitive information. This flaw may expose confidential data to attackers without requiring authentication, increasing the risk of data leaks or privacy violations.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 30th of March 2026.

According to CrowdSec data, while opportunistic exploitation dominates, a portion of threat actors trying to exploit CVE-2024-43283 apply basic targeting methods such as port or service detection. This indicates emerging patterns of selective targeting.
Additionally, according to week-over-week analysis by CrowdSec, exploitation of CVE-2024-43283 is surging. Attack volumes are spiking well above historical norms, indicating widespread and escalating interest from threat actors. CVE-2024-43283 is currently experiencing high visibility and active exploitation across the internet.

Attackers exploit this vulnerability by sending unauthenticated requests to URLs matching `/wp-content/uploads/contest-gallery/gallery-id-*/json/image-comments/image-comments-*.json`, allowing them to access sensitive user information such as user IDs and IP addresses.

## Timeline

- 2024-08-26: CVE Published. CVE-2024-43283 is published to NVD.
- 2026-03-30: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2024-43283 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2026-03-31: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2024-43283 for the first time.

## References

- https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/contest-gallery/wordpress-contest-gallery-plugin-23-1-2-unauthenticated-comment-userid-and-ip-address-disclosure-vulnerability?_s_id=cve
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-43283.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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