Contact Form 7 Captcha <= 0.0.8 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24565
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published July 26, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher dc11
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug contact-form-7-simple-recaptcha (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 0.0.9
Patched Version
  • 0.0.9
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