CVE-2024-30540 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Guessable CAPTCHA vulnerability in Guido VS Contact Form allows Functionality Bypass.This issue affects VS Contact Form: from n/a through 14.7.

Published: 2024-05-17

Score: 5.3 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

No analysis available yet.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Guido

VS Contact Form

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	≤ 14.7

No data.

No data.

Vendor	Product	Confidence	Versions
Wordpress	Wordpress	—	—

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Remediation

Vendor Solution

Update to 14.8 or a higher version.

Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2024-28460	Guessable CAPTCHA vulnerability in Guido VS Contact Form allows Functionality Bypass.This issue affects VS Contact Form: from n/a through 14.7.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00162.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/very-simple-contact-form/wordpress-vs-contact-form-plugin-14-7-sum-captcha-bypass-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Wordpress Wordpress

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Patchstack

Published: 2024-05-17T08:20:23.985Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T01:38:59.982Z

Reserved: 2024-03-27T13:10:10.559Z

Link: CVE-2024-30540

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T01:38:59.982Z

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2024-05-17T09:15:30.807

Modified: 2026-04-15T00:35:42.020

Link: CVE-2024-30540

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-07-12T23:06:19Z

Weaknesses

CWE-804

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