CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-24565

8.8 HIGH Published 2021-08-23 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-08-23
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-352, CWE-79

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.

Affected configurations

• contact form 7 captcha project contact form 7 captcha (< 0.0.9)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness

References