CVE-2014-2265
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
Rock Lobster Contact Form 7 before 3.7.2 allows remote attackers to bypass the CAPTCHA protection mechanism and submit arbitrary form data by omitting the _wpcf7_captcha_challenge_captcha-719 parameter.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| rocklobster | contact_form_7 | {"endIncluding":"3.7.1"} | |
| rocklobster | contact_form_7 | 3.6 | |
| rocklobster | contact_form_7 | 3.7 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | - | |
References
- http://contactform7.com/2014/02/26/contact-form-7-372/
- http://web.archive.org/web/20140727133642/http://www.hedgehogsecurity.co.uk/2014/02/26/contactform7-vulnerability/
- http://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/changelog
- https://www.acunetix.com/vulnerabilities/web/wordpress-plugin-contact-form-7-security-bypass-3-7-1/
- https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2014-2265/
- http://contactform7.com/2014/02/26/contact-form-7-372/
- http://web.archive.org/web/20140727133642/http://www.hedgehogsecurity.co.uk/2014/02/26/contactform7-vulnerability/
- http://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/changelog
- https://www.acunetix.com/vulnerabilities/web/wordpress-plugin-contact-form-7-security-bypass-3-7-1/
- https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2014-2265/
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.