WordPress plugin
Contact Form 7 < 3.7.2 — CAPTCHA Bypass
CVE-2014-2265Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: <3.7.2Update to 3.7.2 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium5.3
- CVSS
- 5.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Contact Form 7 contact-form-7
- Affected< 3.7.2
- Patched in3.7.2
Update to 3.7.2 or newer.
You are affected if you run < 3.7.2. Version 3.7.2 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Contact Form 7.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 3.7.2, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Contact Form 7 to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Hannah Sharp.
Rock Lobster Contact Form 7 before 3.7.2 allows remote attackers to bypass the CAPTCHA protection mechanism and submit arbitrary form data by omitting the _wpcf7_captcha_challenge_captcha-719 parameter.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in Contact Form 7
All 10| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical9.8 | 6.2.3 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload 6.2 – 6.2.3Update to 6.2.4 | CVE-2026-114432 | |
| Critical9.8 | 6.2.3 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload 6.2 – 6.2.3Update to 6.2.4 | — | |
| Medium5.3 | Order Replay Vulnerability ≤6.0.5Update to 6.0.6 | CVE-2025-3247 | |
| Medium6.1 | Unauthenticated Open Redirect ≤5.9.4Update to 5.9.5 | CVE-2024-4704 | |
| Medium6.1 | Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ≤5.9Update to 5.9.2 | CVE-2024-2242 |
- Critical9.86.2.3 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload
6.2 – 6.2.3Update to 6.2.4
- Critical9.86.2.3 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload
6.2 – 6.2.3Update to 6.2.4
- Medium5.3Order Replay Vulnerability
≤6.0.5Update to 6.0.6
- Medium6.1Unauthenticated Open Redirect
≤5.9.4Update to 5.9.5
- Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤5.9Update to 5.9.2
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.