CVE-2021-24565: Contact Form 7 Captcha Project Contact Form 7 Captcha

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Contact Form 7 Captcha WordPress plugin before 0.0.9 does not have any CSRF check in place when saving its settings, allowing attacker to make a logged in user with the manage_options change them. Furthermore, the settings are not escaped when output in attributes, leading to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue.

Affected products

• Contact Form 7 Captcha Project Contact Form 7 Captcha: before 0.0.9 (fixed in 0.0.9)

Published 2021-08-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.