CVE-2021-24565

HIGH

Contact Form 7 Captcha < 0.0.9 - Cross-Site Request Forgery and Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/97bfef5e-2ee0-491a-a931-4f44c83e5be0
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2570402

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0072
EPSS Percentile 49.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-352 CWE-79
Status published
Products (1)
contact_form_7_captcha_project/contact_form_7_captcha < 0.0.9
Published Aug 23, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026