Description
The Flexible Captcha WordPress plugin through 4.1 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks
Published: 2023-02-06
Score: 5.4 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-12237 The Flexible Captcha WordPress plugin through 4.1 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks
History

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Subscriptions

Flexible Captcha Project Flexible Captcha
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2025-03-25T19:57:39.690Z

Reserved: 2023-01-10T10:58:01.572Z

Link: CVE-2023-0147

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T05:02:43.568Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-06T20:15:13.310

Modified: 2025-03-25T20:15:16.930

Link: CVE-2023-0147

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

No weakness.