Contact Form 7 Captcha < 0.0.9 - CSRF to Stored XSS
CVE-2021-24565

8.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
Contact Form 7 Captcha
Vendor
CVE Published:
23 August 2021

What is 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.

Affected Version(s)

Contact Form 7 Captcha 0.0.9

References

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

CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

dc11
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