CVE-2014-2265

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-03-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Rock Lobster Contact Form 7 before 3.7.2 allows remote attackers to bypass the CAPTCHA protection mechanism and submit arbitrary form data by omitting the _wpcf7_captcha_challenge_captcha-719 parameter.

Affected products

rocklobsterinc Contact Form 7: through 3.7.1; 3.6, 3.7

References

http://contactform7.com/2014/02/26/contact-form-7-372/
http://web.archive.org/web/20140727133642/http://www.hedgehogsecurity.co.uk/2014/02/26/contactform7-vulnerability/
http://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/changelog
https://www.acunetix.com/vulnerabilities/web/wordpress-plugin-contact-form-7-security-bypass-3-7-1/
https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2014-2265/
http://contactform7.com/2014/02/26/contact-form-7-372/
http://web.archive.org/web/20140727133642/http://www.hedgehogsecurity.co.uk/2014/02/26/contactform7-vulnerability/
http://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/changelog
https://www.acunetix.com/vulnerabilities/web/wordpress-plugin-contact-form-7-security-bypass-3-7-1/
https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2014-2265/

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