vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: contact-form-7-simple-recaptcha: CVE-2021-24565: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 26, 2021
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 15, 2025

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.

Solution

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