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    1 vulnerability by recaptcha_project

    CVE-2022-3831 (GCVE-0-2022-3831)

    Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-28 13:47 – Updated: 2025-04-25 15:01
    VLAI
    Title
    reCAPTCHA <= 1.6 - Admin+ Stored XSS
    Summary
    The reCAPTCHA WordPress plugin through 1.6 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
    Severity
    4.8 (Medium)
    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    SSVC
    Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
    CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
    CWE
    Assigner
    References
    URL Tags
    https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fa23bd68-69f3-44… exploittechnical-description
    Impacted products
    Vendor Product Version
    Unknown reCAPTCHA Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.6 (custom)
    		Create a notification for this product.
    Credits
    zhangyunpei
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