CVE-2015-6250

MEDIUM 5.3CVE-2015-6250 · Published 06/09/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2015-6250 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.3) vulnerability affecting simple-php-captcha (simple-php-captcha project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.2%, higher than 69.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
simple-php-captcha simple-php-captcha_project	`≤ 2015-08-31`	No fix yet

Description

simple-php-captcha before commit 9d65a945029c7be7bb6bc893759e74c5636be694 allows remote attackers to automatically generate the captcha response by running the same code on the client-side.

References

openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/17/7 · Mailing List
claviska/simple-php-captcha commit 9d65a94 · Patch
claviska/simple-php-captcha · Issue Tracking

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