CVE-2025-2482: Gotcha | Gesture-based Captcha <= 1.0.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via menu Parameter

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-03-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Gotcha | Gesture-based Captcha plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'menu' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

pienaro Gotcha | Gesture-based Captcha: through 1.0.0

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gotcha-gesture-based-captcha/trunk/admin/libs/setting.php#L223
https://wordpress.org/plugins/gotcha-gesture-based-captcha/#developers
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6e7f1fe6-0a23-48e1-a75f-f8c1c8d4f8e0?source=cve

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