Contact Form 7 < 3.7.2 - CAPTCHA Bypass

Protection Mechanism Failure

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CVE	CVE-2014-2265
CVSS	Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published	February 26, 2014
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	Hannah Sharp

Description

Rock Lobster Contact Form 7 before 3.7.2 allows remote attackers to bypass the CAPTCHA protection mechanism and submit arbitrary form data by omitting the _wpcf7_captcha_challenge_captcha-719 parameter.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	contact-form-7 (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 3.7.2
Patched Version	3.7.2

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