CVE-2021-24565

The Contact Form 7 Captcha WordPress plugin before 0.0.9 does not have any CSRF check in place when saving its settings, allowing attacker to make a logged in user with the manage_options change them. Furthermore, the settings are not escaped when output in attributes, leading to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue.

Score

CVSS 3.1 8.8 High

Status

Modified - contact@wpscan.com

Published

2021-08-23

Last modified

2024-08-03

Weaknesses

CWE-352, CWE-79

Affected products

• Contact Form 7 Captcha (Contact Form 7 Captcha Project)
• Contact Form 7 Captcha (Unknown)

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2570402
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/97bfef5e-2ee0-491a-a931-4f44c83e5be0