PT-2008-1851 · WordPress · Captcha! Plugin

Mustlive · Published 2008-01-10 · Updated 2018-10-15 · CVE-2008-0206

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Captcha! plugin for WordPress versions 2.5d and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the captcha ttffolder, captcha numchars, captcha ttfrange, or captcha secret parameters in the captcha/captcha.php file.

Recommendations For Captcha! plugin for WordPress versions 2.5d and earlier, update to a version later than 2.5d to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-0206

Affected Products

Captcha! Plugin

References · 5

• 🔥 http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-January/059439.html · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0206 · Security Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3539 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/485786/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://websecurity.com.ua/1588 · Note