CVE-2024-11342: Skt NURCaptcha <= 3.5.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-11-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Skt NURCaptcha plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation in the skt-nurc-admin.php file. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update settings and inject malicious web scripts via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

sanskritforum Skt NURCaptcha: through 3.5.0

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/skt-nurcaptcha/trunk/skt-nurc-admin.php
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/skt-nurcaptcha/trunk/skt-nurc-admin.php?rev=3195583
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3195583%40skt-nurcaptcha&new=3195583%40skt-nurcaptcha&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/96e47918-7848-407a-8f77-dbbfeb17029d?source=cve

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