CVE-2021-42358

The Contact Form With Captcha WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery due to missing nonce validation in the ~/cfwc-form.php file during contact form submission, which made it possible for attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in versions up to, and including 1.6.2.

CVSS v3 8.8 HIGH
CVSS v2.0 6.8 MEDIUM

8.8^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

6.8^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

Vector : AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contact-form-with-captcha/trunk/cfwc-form.php#L17	Third Party Advisory
https://wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-42358	Third Party Advisory
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contact-form-with-captcha/trunk/cfwc-form.php#L17	Third Party Advisory
https://wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-42358	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:contact_form_with_captcha_project:contact_form_with_captcha:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

21 Nov 2024, 06:27

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References	~~() https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contact-form-with-captcha/trunk/cfwc-form.php#L17 - Third Party Advisory~~	() https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contact-form-with-captcha/trunk/cfwc-form.php#L17 - Third Party Advisory
References	~~() https://wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-42358 - Third Party Advisory~~	() https://wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-42358 - Third Party Advisory

Information

Published : 2021-11-29 19:15

Updated : 2024-11-21 06:27

NVD link : CVE-2021-42358

Mitre link : CVE-2021-42358

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-42358

JSON object : View

Products Affected

contact_form_with_captcha_project

contact_form_with_captcha

CWE

CWE-352

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

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