WordPress plugin
Contact Form Email <= 1.3.41 — Captcha Bypass
CVE-2023-48318Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.3.41Update to 1.3.42 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
- Weakness
- CWE-804 Guessable CAPTCHA
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Contact Form Email contact-form-to-email
- Affected≤ 1.3.41
- Patched in1.3.42
Update to 1.3.42 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.3.41. Version 1.3.42 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 Email.
- 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 1.3.42, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Contact Form Email to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to qilin_99.
The Contact Form Email plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CAPTCHA Bypass in versions up to, and including, 1.3.41. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass the Captcha Verification.
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
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All 18| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤1.3.68Update to 1.3.69 | CVE-2026-112379 | |
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization ≤1.3.63Update to 1.3.64 | CVE-2026-32483 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Insecure Direct Object Reference ≤1.3.60Update to 1.3.61 | CVE-2025-10019 | |
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization ≤1.3.58Update to 1.3.59 | CVE-2025-64369 | |
| Medium4.4 | Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤1.3.52Update to 1.3.53 | CVE-2025-24727 |
- High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.3.68Update to 1.3.69
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤1.3.63Update to 1.3.64
- Medium5.3Unauthenticated Insecure Direct Object Reference
≤1.3.60Update to 1.3.61
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤1.3.58Update to 1.3.59
- Medium4.4Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.3.52Update to 1.3.53
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.