CVE-2021-24565 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8