CVE-2021-24565

CVSS V2 Medium 6.8 CVSS V3 High 8.8
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2021-24565
  • Assigner
  • contact@wpscan.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2021-08-23T12:15:10
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2022-07-28T12:00:49
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-352 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/352.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:contact_form_7_captcha_project:contact_form_7_captcha:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* 1 OR 0.0.9
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 6.8
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 8.8
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2570402 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/97bfef5e-2ee0-491a-a931-4f44c83e5be0 Exploit Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24565
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-24565
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 06:55:46 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-05 08:43:40 2021-08-23T12:15Z 2021-08-23T12:15:10 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-05 08:43:40 2022-07-28T12:00:49 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-05 08:43:40 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated