Vulnerabilites related to Unknown - Flexible Captcha
cve-2023-0147
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-06 19:59
Modified
2025-03-25 19:57
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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
References
▼ | URL | Tags |
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https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/af9cbb4a-42fc-43c5-88f3-349b417f1a6a | exploit, vdb-entry, technical-description |
Impacted products
Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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Unknown | Flexible Captcha |
Version: 0 < |
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