CVE-2014-9283

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2014-9283 · Published 03/03/2015 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2014-9283 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting captcha (bestwebsoft).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.4%, higher than 83.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
captcha bestwebsoft	`≤ 4.0.6`	No fix yet

Description

The BestWebSoft Captcha plugin before 4.0.7 for WordPress allows remote attackers to bypass the CAPTCHA protection mechanism and obtain administrative access via unspecified vectors.

References

jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN93727681/index.html · Vendor Advisory
jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2015-000029 · Vendor Advisory
wordpress.org/plugins/captcha/changelog

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