CVE-2022-3831 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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).

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Recaptcha Project	Recaptcha

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:recaptcha_project:recaptcha:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fa23bd68-69f3-440e-902c-a3bb6c8a40b8

History

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2022-11-28T13:47:11.132Z

Updated: 2025-04-25T15:01:19.589Z

Reserved: 2022-11-02T11:34:38.317Z

Link: CVE-2022-3831

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:20:58.383Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-11-28T14:15:15.573

Modified: 2025-04-25T15:15:31.947

Link: CVE-2022-3831

Redhat

No data.

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