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WordPress Contact Form 7 Captcha Plugin < 0.0.9 CSRF/XSS Vulnerability
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Web application abuses
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
6.8
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
2 years ago
Modified
Modified
2 years ago
Summary
The WordPress plugin Contact Form 7 Captcha is prone to a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) and cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
The plugin 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 XSS issue.
Affected Software
Affected Software
WordPress Contact Form 7 Captcha plugin prior to version 0.0.9.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
Update to version 0.0.9 or later.