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Improper Access Control

CVE-2024-38873

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in the friendlycaptcha_official (aka Integration of Friendly Captcha) extension prior to 0.1.4 for TYPO3. The extension fails to check the requirement of the captcha field in submitted form data, allowing a remote user to bypass the captcha check. This only affects the captcha integration for the "ext:form" extension.

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  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
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  • LOW

CWE-284 - Improper Access Control

Listed 5th in the 'OWASP Top Ten', improper (or broken) access control attacks are a fundamental type of vulnerability. This includes a broad range of design flaws that enable users to act outside of their intended permissions. They can use these privileges to gain access to restricted files and functionality such as accessing restricted information, falsifying records, destroying data, or executing commands.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published