hCaptcha for WordPress, CVE-2024-4014

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-4014
Home page URL: Security reports for hCaptcha for WordPress
Application: hCaptcha for WordPress
Published on: Apr 20, 2024
Research Description: The hCaptcha for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's cf7-hcaptcha shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected versions: max 4.0.1.
Status: vulnerable