CVE-2021-42358 (GCVE-0-2021-42358)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-11-29 18:10 – Updated: 2025-02-13 20:49
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Contact Form With Captcha <= 1.6.2 Cross-Site Request Forgery to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
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.
Severity
8.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-13 20:49 UTC
CWE
- CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contac… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#C… | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contact Form With Captcha | Contact Form With Captcha |
Affected:
1.6.2 , ≤ 1.6.2
(custom)
|
guessed |
Date Public
2021-11-29 00:00
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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