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CVE-2021-42358 Details

Description

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.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

CNA: [email protected]CVSS-B:8.8 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contact-form-with-captcha/trunk/cfwc-form.php#L17 CVEThird Party Advisory
https://wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-42358 CVEThird Party Advisory
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contact-form-with-captcha/trunk/cfwc-form.php#L17 [email protected]Third Party Advisory
https://wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-42358 [email protected]Third Party Advisory

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-352Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
contact form with captcha project contact form with captcha
<= 1.6.2

CPE

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

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

5 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2021-42358
NVD Published Date:
Nov 29, 2021
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2021-42358 Details - Not Deferred