CVE-2008-0206 (GCVE-0-2008-0206)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-01-10 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 07:39
VLAI
Summary
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in captcha\captcha.php in the Captcha! 2.5d and earlier plugin for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) captcha_ttffolder, (2) captcha_numchars, (3) captcha_ttfrange, or (4) captcha_secret parameter.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://websecurity.com.ua/1588/ x_refsource_MISC
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosur… mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485786/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3539 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
Date Public
2008-01-03 00:00
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