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CVE-2023-0147

MEDIUM 5.4 CVSS 3.1
Published
February 6, 2023
Last modified
June 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified
Reported by
contact@wpscan.com
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Description

The Flexible Captcha WordPress plugin through 4.1 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Affected products and versions

  • Unknown Flexible Captcha — Up to and including 4.1
  • flexible_captcha_project flexible_captcha — Up to and including 4.1

References

  • wpscan.com https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/af9cbb4a-42fc-43c5-88f3-349b417f1a6a Exploit, Third Party Advisory
  • nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record