CVE-2021-24565 affects the Contact Form 7 Captcha WordPress plugin prior to version 0.0.9. It combines a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, allowing attackers to modify plugin settings for logged-in administrators, with a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability due to unescaped output of these settings. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 8.8) is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and can lead to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 0.0.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:contact_form_7_captcha_project:contact_form_7_captcha:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.