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VS Contact Form <= 14.7 — CAPTCHA Bypass

CVE-2024-30540Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤14.7Update to 14.8 or newer

All remediation steps
Severity
Medium5.3
CVSS
5.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-804 Guessable CAPTCHA
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

VS Contact Form very-simple-contact-form

  1. Affected≤ 14.7
  2. Patched in14.8

Update to 14.8 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 14.7. Version 14.8 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under VS Contact Form.
  • 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 14.8, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch VS Contact Form to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Kyle Sanchez.

The VS Contact Form plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CAPTCHA Bypass in versions up to, and including, 14.7. 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

More in VS Contact Form

All 4
More vulnerabilities in VS Contact Form
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤13.9Update to 14.0
CVE-2023-41862
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤11.5Update to 11.6
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High7.2Captcha Bypass
≤11.5Update to 11.6
CVE-2022-1801

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 5.3

  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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