What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-3831: reCAPTCHA <= 1.6 - Admin+ Stored XSS

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-11-28 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

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).

Affected products

• reCAPTCHA: through 1.6

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fa23bd68-69f3-440e-902c-a3bb6c8a40b8
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fa23bd68-69f3-440e-902c-a3bb6c8a40b8

Get alerted when CVE-2022-3831 or the next vulnerability affects your stack