CVE-2014-9283 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The BestWebSoft Captcha plugin before 4.0.7 for WordPress allows remote attackers to bypass the CAPTCHA protection mechanism and obtain administrative access via unspecified vectors.

Published: 2015-03-03

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 2.4% Low

KEV: No

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:bestwebsoft:captcha:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2014-9108	The BestWebSoft Captcha plugin before 4.0.7 for WordPress allows remote attackers to bypass the CAPTCHA protection mechanism and obtain administrative access via unspecified vectors.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.02351.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN93727681/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2015-000029
https://wordpress.org/plugins/captcha/changelog/

History

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Subscriptions

Bestwebsoft Captcha

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: jpcert

Published: 2015-03-03T11:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T13:40:25.057Z

Reserved: 2014-12-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-9283

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-03-03T11:59:01.337

Modified: 2026-06-17T00:18:03.157

Link: CVE-2014-9283

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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