Vulnerability CVE-2021-24565


Published: 2021-08-23

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.

Type:

CWE-352

(Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF))

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Contact form 7 captcha project -> Contact form 7 captcha 

 References:
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2570402
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/97bfef5e-2ee0-491a-a931-4f44c83e5be0

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