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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)
Assigner
References
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Credits
zhangyunpei
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