Medium

hCaptcha for EXT:form Broken Access Control vulnerability

  • Disclosed: 23.08.2023
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

An issue was discovered in the hcaptcha (aka hCaptcha for EXT:form) extension before 2.1.2 for TYPO3. It fails to check that the required captcha field is submitted in the form data. allowing a remote user to bypass the CAPTCHA check.

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Composer package waldhacker/hcaptcha < 2.1.2 2.1.2

References

CVSS score 5.3/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
-
Platform
Composer
Package
waldhacker/hcaptcha
Disclosed
23.08.2023
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-93wx-j2qv-49fg - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: waldhacker/hcaptcha

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