CVE-2025-70129

MEDIUM

5.3

Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score5.3

SeverityMEDIUM

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published3/10/2026

Last Modified3/11/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-804

References

https://github.com/forest4x/vuln-research-public/blob/main/CVE-2025-70129.pdf(cve@mitre.org)

https://youtu.be/dD2olE4yMqY(cve@mitre.org)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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