Description

The Contact Form 7 Math Captcha WordPress plugin through 2.0.1 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-6517

Affected Products

Vendor: Unknown

Product: Contact Form 7 Math Captcha

Nuclei Template

http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-6517.yaml

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 2.61% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 84.39% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-12 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: poc

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6517
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d04bab9c-7cb4-4d21-b70b-a4a7fabc3c20/

Timeline