Contact Form 7 reCAPTCHA: Cross-site request forgery
Contact Form 7 reCAPTCHA is affected by cross-site request forgery. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Exploitation relies on a signed-in privileged user submitting an attacker-controlled request.
- Component
- Contact Form 7 reCAPTCHA
- Plugin slug
contact-form-7-recaptcha- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jul 04, 2025
This CVE was published Jul 04, 2025 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Contact Form 7 reCAPTCHA to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Brian S. Reed Contact Form 7 reCAPTCHA contact-form-7-recaptcha allows Cross Site Request Forgery.This issue affects Contact Form 7 reCAPTCHA: from n/a through <= 1.2.0.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N