Name: CVE-2022-1801: Guessable CAPTCHA
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2022-06-20T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2022-1801, CWE-804, CWE-287, CVSS 7.5, EPSS 0.00245

The Very Simple Contact Form WordPress plugin before 11.6 exposes the solution to the captcha in the rendered contact form, both as hidden input fields and as plain text in the page, making it very easy for bots to bypass the captcha check, rendering the page a likely target for spam bots.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.5
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Very Simple Contact Form Plugin	—	Update very-simple-contact-form plugin to version 11.6, or a newer patched version	May 15, 2025	May 22, 2022

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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