Exploitation Summary
CVE-2022-2187 has a Nuclei detection template available — see the Nuclei card below for the Shodan/FOFA recon queries.
Description
The Contact Form 7 Captcha WordPress plugin before 0.1.2 does not escape the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] parameter before outputting it back in an attribute, which could lead to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in old web browsers
Nuclei Templates (1)
WordPress Contact Form 7 Captcha <0.1.2 - Cross-Site Scripting
MEDIUMby For3stCo1d
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/4fd2f1ef-39c6-4425-8b4d-1a332dabac8d
Scores
CVSS v3
6.1
EPSS
0.0124
EPSS Percentile
65.3%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-79
Status
published
Products (1)
contact_form_7_captcha_project/contact_form_7_captcha
< 0.1.2
Published
Jul 17, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026