Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-0206

Title: Wordpress Captcha Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-0206.

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Jan 10, 2008

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.22%

Vulnerability Summary

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.

Impacted Vendors

wordpress 1

bestwebsoft 1

Reference Links

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-January/059439.html http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3539 http://websecurity.com.ua/1588/ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485786/100/0/threaded http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-January/059439.html http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3539 http://websecurity.com.ua/1588/ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485786/100/0/threaded

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-0206 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 10, 2008 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.