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CWE-804

Guessable CAPTCHA

BaseIncompleteSimple16 CVEs
The product uses a CAPTCHA challenge, but the challenge can be guessed or automatically recognized by a non-human actor.

Extended description

An automated attacker could bypass the intended protection of the CAPTCHA challenge and perform actions at a higher frequency than humanly possible, such as launching spam attacks. There can be several different causes of a guessable CAPTCHA: An audio or visual image that does not have sufficient distortion from the unobfuscated source image. A question is generated with a format that can be automatically recognized, such as a math question. A question for which the number of possible answers is limited, such as birth years or favorite sports teams. A general-knowledge or trivia question for which the answer can be accessed using a data base, such as country capitals or popular entertainers. Other data associated with the CAPTCHA may provide hints about its contents, such as an image whose filename contains the word that is used in the CAPTCHA.

Common consequences1

  • Access ControlOtherBypass Protection MechanismOther

    When authorization, authentication, or another protection mechanism relies on CAPTCHA entities to ensure that only human actors can access certain functionality, then an automated attacker such as a bot may access the restricted functionality by guessing the CAPTCHA.

Relationships2

CVEs referencing this CWE16

CVEDescriptionSeverityEPSSFlagsModified
CVE-2022-1801

The Very Simple Contact Form WordPress plugin before 11.6 exposes the solution to the captcha in the rendered contact form, both as hidden input fields and as plain text in the page, making it very easy for bots to bypass the captcha check, rendering the page a likely target for spam bots.

HIGH7.5
1.16%p63
2024-11-21
CVE-2023-1539

Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts in GitHub repository answerdev/answer prior to 1.0.6.

MEDIUM5.3
0.61%p45
2025-02-27
CVE-2023-6963

The Getwid – Gutenberg Blocks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CAPTCHA Bypass in versions up to, and including, 2.0.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass the Captcha Verification of the Contact Form block by omitting 'g-recaptcha-response' from the 'data' array.

MEDIUM5.3
0.53%p41
2026-04-08
CVE-2024-30540

Guessable CAPTCHA vulnerability in Guido VS Contact Form allows Functionality Bypass.This issue affects VS Contact Form: from n/a through 14.7.

MEDIUM5.3
0.49%p38
2026-04-28
CVE-2022-4036

The Appointment Hour Booking plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CAPTCHA bypass in versions up to, and including, 1.3.72. This is due to the use of insufficiently strong hashing algorithm on the CAPTCHA secret that is also displayed to the user via a cookie.

MEDIUM5.3
0.44%p35
2026-04-08
CVE-2025-10423

A vulnerability was found in newbee-mall 1.0. Impacted is the function mallKaptcha of the file /common/mall/kaptcha. The manipulation results in guessable captcha. The attack can be executed remotely. A high complexity level is associated with this attack. The exploitability is considered difficult. The exploit has been made public and could be used.

LOW3.7
0.42%p33
2026-04-29
CVE-2025-8546

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in atjiu pybbs up to 6.0.0. This affects the function adminlogin/login of the component Verification Code Handler. The manipulation leads to guessable captcha. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The patch is named ecaf8d46944fd03e3c4ea05698f8acf0aaa570cf. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

MEDIUM5.3
0.42%p33
2025-09-03
CVE-2024-31295

Guessable CAPTCHA vulnerability in BestWebSoft Captcha by BestWebSoft allows Functionality Bypass.This issue affects Captcha by BestWebSoft: from n/a through 5.2.0.

MEDIUM5.3
0.38%p29
2026-04-28
CVE-2026-49953

Discuz! X5.0 releases 20260320 through 20260610 contains a CAPTCHA bypass vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to defeat challenge controls by exploiting limited complexity and predictable character sets in generated CAPTCHA images. Attackers can train a custom optical character recognition model against collected CAPTCHA samples to reliably predict challenge text, bypassing protections on login, registration, and other functionality from automated abuse.

MEDIUM6.5
0.36%p28
2026-06-16
CVE-2025-40916

Mojolicious::Plugin::CaptchaPNG version 1.05 for Perl uses a weak random number source for generating the captcha. That version uses the built-in rand() function for generating the captcha text as well as image noise, which is insecure.

CRITICAL9.1
0.33%p25
2026-04-15
CVE-2025-1262

The Advanced Google reCaptcha plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CAPTCHA Bypass in versions up to, and including, 1.27 . This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass the Built-in Math Captcha Verification.

MEDIUM5.3
0.32%p23
2026-04-08
CVE-2025-70129

If the anti spam-captcha functionality in PluXml versions 5.8.22 and earlier is enabled, a captcha challenge is generated with a format that can be automatically recognized for articles, such that an automated script is able to solve this anti-spam mechanism trivially and publish spam comments. The details of captcha challenge are exposed within document body of articles with comments & anti spam-captcha functionalities enabled, including "capcha-letter", "capcha-word" and "capcha-token" which can be used to construct a valid post request to publish a comment. As such, attackers can flood articles with automated spam comments, especially if there are no other web defenses available.

MEDIUM5.3
0.29%p20
2026-04-07
CVE-2025-32036

DNN (formerly DotNetNuke) is an open-source web content management platform (CMS) in the Microsoft ecosystem. The algorithm used to generate the captcha image shows the least complexity of the desired image. For this reason, the created image can be easily read by OCR tools, and the intruder can send automatic requests by building a robot and using this tool. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.13.8.

MEDIUM6.5
0.25%p16
2025-08-26
CVE-2025-50850

An issue was discovered in CS Cart 4.18.3 allows the vendor login functionality lacks essential security controls such as CAPTCHA verification and rate limiting. This allows an attacker to systematically attempt various combinations of usernames and passwords (brute-force attack) to gain unauthorized access to vendor accounts. The absence of any blocking mechanism makes the login endpoint susceptible to automated attacks.

HIGH8.6
0.23%p14
2025-08-06
CVE-2026-40935

WWBN AVideo is an open source video platform. In versions 29.0 and prior, `objects/getCaptcha.php` accepts the CAPTCHA length (`ql`) directly from the query string with no clamping or sanitization, letting any unauthenticated client force the server to generate a 1-character CAPTCHA word. Combined with a case-insensitive `strcasecmp` comparison over a ~33-character alphabet and the fact that failed validations do NOT consume the stored session token, an attacker can trivially brute-force the CAPTCHA on any endpoint that relies on `Captcha::validation()` (user registration, password recovery, contact form, etc.) in at most ~33 requests per session. Commit bf1c76989e6a9054be4f0eb009d68f0f2464b453 contains a fix.

MEDIUM5.3
0.22%p12
2026-04-24
CVE-2026-27411

Guessable CAPTCHA vulnerability in jp-secure SiteGuard WP Plugin siteguard allows Functionality Bypass.This issue affects SiteGuard WP Plugin: from n/a through <= 1.7.9.

MEDIUM5.4
0.19%p8
2026-04-29