Known vulnerabilities in Captcha by BestWebSoft – Advanced Spam Protection, Math & OCR-Friendly Captcha for Site Forms

1 The Ultimate Spam Protection Plugin Using Captcha for WordPress Forms.

1Reported vulnerabilities

5.3Highest CVSS score

5.2.8Latest version

10,000+Active installs

What to do now

Update Captcha by BestWebSoft – Advanced Spam Protection, Math & OCR-Friendly Captcha for Site Forms to 5.2.1 or later. 1 of these have a fixed version available. Updating resolves them.

Plugin last updated: March 26, 2026 / Tested up to WordPress: 6.9.7 / View on wordpress.org

Reported vulnerabilities

Ordered by how urgently they need attention — whether a vulnerability is actually being exploited, and how likely exploitation is, rather than CVSS severity alone.

CVE	Severity	Exploit probability next 30 days	Affected versions	Fixed in	Published
CVE-2024-31295	Medium 5.3	0.4%	5.2.0 and earlier	`5.2.1`	April 5, 2024

Sources: vulnerability records from NVD, exploitation from CISA KEV, exploit probability from EPSS. Affected versions come from CPE ranges or from the reporting CNA.