CVE-2014-2265
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 3.1%EU EUVD
Rock Lobster Contact Form 7 before 3.7.2 allows remote attackers to bypass the CAPTCHA protection mechanism and submit arbitrary form data by omitting the _wpcf7_captcha_challenge_captcha-719 parameter.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 3.1% (88th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-2303)
- Published
- March 14, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-2303 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- rocklobster / contact form 7
- rocklobster / contact form 7
- rocklobster / contact form 7
- wordpress / wordpress
References
- http://contactform7.com/2014/02/26/contact-form-7-372/(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://web.archive.org/web/20140727133642/http://www.hedgehogsecurity.co.uk/2014/02/26/contactform7-vulnerability/
- http://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/changelog
- https://www.acunetix.com/vulnerabilities/web/wordpress-plugin-contact-form-7-security-bypass-3-7-1/
- https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2014-2265/
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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