Unauthenticated commenter user ID and IP disclosure
Published Aug 26, 2024 · Updated Apr 28, 2026
Information exposure in Contest Gallery 23.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to obtain commenter user IDs and IP addresses. Patchstack identifies the exposed fields but has not published the request handler or the operation that inserts them into an unauthenticated response. No account or user interaction is required; exposure is limited to commenter identifiers and IP addresses, with no reported write or service impact.
Summary
What happened
Information exposure in Contest Gallery 23.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to obtain commenter user IDs and IP addresses. Patchstack identifies the exposed fields but has not published the request handler or the operation that inserts them into an unauthenticated response. No account or user interaction is required; exposure is limited to commenter identifiers and IP addresses, with no reported write or service impact.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-43283
- Published
- Aug 26, 2024
- Updated
- Apr 28, 2026
- Vendor
- Wasiliy Strecker / ContestGallery developer
- Product
- Contest Gallery
- Classifications
- CWE-201
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 26, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 28, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=23.1.2 changes=[{"at":"23.1.3","status":"unaffected"}]
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