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CVE-2016-8600

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2016-10-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-254

Description

In dotCMS 3.2.1, attacker can load captcha once, fill it with correct value and then this correct value is ok for forms with captcha check later.

Affected products

• dotCMS core: 3.2.1

References

• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Oct/63
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93798
• https://github.com/dotCMS/core/issues/9330
• https://security.elarlang.eu/cve-2016-8600-dotcms-captcha-bypass-by-reusing-valid-code.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Oct/63
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93798
• https://github.com/dotCMS/core/issues/9330
• https://security.elarlang.eu/cve-2016-8600-dotcms-captcha-bypass-by-reusing-valid-code.html

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