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1 vulnerability by pienaro

CVE-2025-2482 (GCVE-0-2025-2482)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-22 06:41 – Updated: 2026-04-08 16:59
VLAI
Title
Gotcha | Gesture-based Captcha <= 1.0.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via menu Parameter
Summary
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.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
pienaro Gotcha | Gesture-based Captcha Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.0.0 (semver)
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Credits
JohSka
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