CVE-2026-85116: Unknown Simple Captcha With Cloudflare Turnstile

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Simple CAPTCHA with Cloudflare Turnstile WordPress plugin from 1.2.2 before 1.42.3 runs the shortcode parser over the whole rendered Contact Form 7 form, including the values a visitor submitted, allowing unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary shortcodes registered on the site.

Affected products

• Unknown Simple Captcha With Cloudflare Turnstile: from 1.2.2, before 1.42.3 (fixed in 1.42.3)

Published 2026-09-11. Last modified 2026-09-11.