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WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES Standard & Premium

WordPress Plugin Captcha Backdoor (4.4.4)

Description

WordPress Plugin Captcha contains a backdoor. Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary commands in the context of the application. Successful attacks will compromise the affected application and possibly the webserver or computer. WordPress Plugin Captcha versions starting from 4.3.6 and up to, and including 4.4.4 are vulnerable.

Remediation

Update to plugin version 4.4.5 or latest

References

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/12/backdoor-captcha-plugin/

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backdoor-2/

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/captcha/trunk/readme.txt

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MySQL CVE-2015-2567 Vulnerability (CVE-2015-2567)

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SharePoint Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Vulnerability (CVE-2026-64897)

WordPress Plugin ACF Frontend display Arbitrary File Upload (2.0.5)

PHP Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability (CVE-2016-6291)

Severity

High

Classification

CWE-95 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update

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