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CVE-2014-2265 (GCVE-0-2014-2265)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-03-14 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 10:06
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Summary
Rock Lobster Contact Form 7 before 3.7.2 allows remote attackers to bypass the CAPTCHA protection mechanism and submit arbitrary form data by omitting the _wpcf7_captcha_challenge_captcha-719 parameter.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2014-02-26 00:00
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