Google Captcha: Privilege escalation or authentication bypass
Google Captcha is affected by privilege escalation or authentication bypass. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. A successful request can grant permissions or access that the caller should not possess.
- Component
- Google Captcha
- Plugin slug
google-captcha- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Mar 03, 2015
- Weakness
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
This CVE was published Mar 03, 2015 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Google Captcha 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
The BestWebSoft Google Captcha (aka reCAPTCHA) plugin before 1.13 for WordPress allows remote attackers to bypass the CAPTCHA protection mechanism and obtain administrative access via unspecified vectors.
NVD vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N