CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-4121
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-04-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-352
Description
The Kcaptcha plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to and including 1.0.1. This is due to missing nonce validation in the plugin's settings page handler (admin/setting.php). The settings form does not include a wp_nonce_field() and the form processing code does not call wp_verify_nonce() or check_admin_referer() before saving settings to the database via $wpdb->update(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the plugin's CAPTCHA settings (enabling or disabling CAPTCHA on login, registration, lost password, and comment forms) via a forged request, granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking a link.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kcaptcha/tags/1.0.1/admin/setting.php#L12 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kcaptcha/tags/1.0.1/admin/setting.php#L30 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kcaptcha/tags/1.0.1/admin/setting.php#L47 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kcaptcha/trunk/admin/setting.php#L12 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kcaptcha/trunk/admin/setting.php#L30 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kcaptcha/trunk/admin/setting.php#L47 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a6c1c73b-76e3-4cb9-ad53-9d5d4e7519c9?source=cve www.wordfence.com