CVE-2021-42358 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00109.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Contact Form With Captcha Project	Contact Form With Captcha

Configuration 1 [-]

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

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Fixes

Solution

Uninstall plugin from WordPress site.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

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

History

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2021-11-29T18:10:18.403Z

Updated: 2025-02-13T20:49:16.649Z

Reserved: 2021-10-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-42358

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T03:30:38.466Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-11-29T19:15:07.687

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:27:39.260

Link: CVE-2021-42358

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

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