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Medium · 4.8 CVE-2022-3831 EUVD-2022-43171GHSA-vphw-5pr6-m4fx

reCAPTCHA <= 1.6 - Admin+ Stored XSS

Published Nov 28, 2022 · Updated Apr 25, 2025 · Assigned by WPScan

Description

The reCAPTCHA WordPress plugin through 1.6 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— reCAPTCHA ≤ 1.6 —

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