BestWebSoft Captcha <= 4.0.6 - CAPTCHA Bypass

2014-12-05 00:00

Anonymous

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 4.0.7

Affected PluginCaptcha by BestWebSoft – Advanced Spam Protection, Math & OCR-Friendly Captcha for Site Forms

Affected Version< 4.0.7

CVSS5.3Medium

CVECVE-2014-9283

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Vulnerability Overview

The BestWebSoft Captcha plugin before 4.0.7 for WordPress allows remote attackers to bypass the CAPTCHA protection mechanism and obtain administrative access via unspecified vectors.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 4.0.7, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-804 (Guessable CAPTCHA) The product uses a CAPTCHA challenge, but the challenge can be guessed or automatically recognized by a non-human actor.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9283 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0490667e-4b82-4687-9354-205c37f13331

CVSS Vector

5.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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