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JVNDB-2015-000029

BestWebSoft Captcha plugin vulnerable to CAPTCHA authentication bypass

Overview

Captcha provided by BestWebSoft is a plugin for WordPress. Captcha contains a CAPTCHA authentication bypass vulnerability (CWE-254).
CVSS Severity (What is CVSS?)

CVSS V2 Severity:
Base Metrics 5.0 (Medium) [IPA Score]
  • Access Vector: Network
  • Access Complexity: Low
  • Authentication: None
  • Confidentiality Impact: None
  • Integrity Impact: Partial
  • Availability Impact: None
Affected Products


BestWebSoft
  • Captcha V4.0.6 and earlier

Impact

If this vulnerability is exploited, an attacker may be able to successfully login to WordPress and access an administrative interface without authentication.
Solution

[Update the Software]
Update to the latest version according to the information provided by the developer.
Vendor Information

BestWebSoft
CWE (What is CWE?)

  1. No Mapping(CWE-Other) [IPA Evaluation]
CVE (What is CVE?)

  1. CVE-2014-9283
References

  1. JVN : JVN#93727681
  2. National Vulnerability Database (NVD) : CVE-2014-9283
Revision History

  • [2015/03/03]
      Web page was published
    [2015/03/04]
      References : Content was added

Date Public2015/03/03
Date First Published2015/03/03
Date Last Updated2015/03/04