Vulnerability CVE-2021-42358
Published: 2021-11-29

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 1.6.2.

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 with captcha project -> Contact form with captcha 

 References:
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contact-form-with-captcha/trunk/cfwc-form.php#L17
https://wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-42358
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