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Contact Form 7 Captcha <= 0.0.8 — Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

CVE-2021-24565Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <0.0.9Update to 0.0.9 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
High8.8
CVSS
8.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

LukasApps CAPTCHA tools for Contact Form 7 contact-form-7-simple-recaptcha

  1. Affected< 0.0.9
  2. Patched in0.0.9

Update to 0.0.9 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 0.0.9. Version 0.0.9 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under LukasApps CAPTCHA tools for 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

  1. Update to version 0.0.9, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch LukasApps CAPTCHA tools for Contact Form 7 to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to dc11.

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.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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0.1.7 – 0.1.8Update to 0.1.9
CVE-2026-85117
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤0.1.1Update to 0.1.2
CVE-2022-2187

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 8.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. 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.

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