Vulnerability CVE-2008-7216
Published: 2009-09-11   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Peter's Math Anti-Spam Spinoff plugin for WordPress generates audio CAPTCHA clips by concatenating static audio files without any additional distortion, which allows remote attackers to bypass CAPTCHA protection by reading certain bytes from the generated clip.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
Defeating audio captcha systems
Jose
16.09.2009

Type:

CWE-264

 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Wordpress -> Peter's math anti-spam for wordpress 

 References:
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=df36cd52_19xzmkwqcg
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486331/100/200/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27287
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39688
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