What is CVE-2008-0206?

CVE-2008-0206 is a vulnerability in Wordpress Captcha, classified under Cross-site Scripting. Published 2008-01-10.

Is CVE-2008-0206 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Wordpress Captcha

CVE-2008-0206

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in captcha\captcha.php in the Captcha! 2.5d and earlier plugin for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) captcha_ttffolder, (2) captcha_numchars, (3) captcha_ttfrange, or (4) captcha_secret parameter.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.019 (77.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Wordpress Captcha
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_FULLDISC)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SREASON, third-party-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2008-0206?: CVE-2008-0206 is a vulnerability in Wordpress Captcha, classified under Cross-site Scripting. Published 2008-01-10.
Is CVE-2008-0206 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.