VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2022-1801

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.24%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2022-06-20
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Description

The Very Simple Contact Form WordPress plugin before 11.6 exposes the solution to the captcha in the rendered contact form, both as hidden input fields and as plain text in the page, making it very easy for bots to bypass the captcha check, rendering the page a likely target for spam bots.

Weakness classification

  • contact@wpscan.com: CWE-804
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-287

Primary references