Contact Form With Captcha <= 1.6.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2021-42358
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published November 29, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Yuga Futatsuki
Description

The Contact Form With Captcha WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery due to missing nonce validation in the ~/cfwc-form.php file during contact form submission, which made it possible for attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in versions up to, and including 1.6.7.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug contact-form-with-captcha (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.6.7
Patched Version
  • 1.6.8
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