CVE-2022-1801

HIGH

Very Simple Contact Form < 11.6 - Captcha Bypass via Exposed Solution in Rendered Form

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The Very Simple Contact Form WordPress plugin before 11.6 exposes the solution to the captcha in the rendered contact form, both as hidden input fields and as plain text in the page, making it very easy for bots to bypass the captcha check, rendering the page a likely target for spam bots.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a5c97809-2ffc-4efb-8c80-1b734361cd06

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0116
EPSS Percentile 63.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-287 CWE-804
Status published
Products (1)
very_simple_contact_form_project/very_simple_contact_form < 11.6
Published Jun 20, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026