GHSA-44qr-rrjg-2cqq
ApostropheCMS: CAPTCHA response token not URL-encoded
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2026-113667
- CVSS_V4
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
**Summary** Form and login CAPTCHA verification interpolate the user-supplied widget token unencoded into the server-side verification URL/body, allowing a crafted token to inject query parameters into the reCAPTCHA/hCaptcha verify request. **Details** - `packages/form/lib/recaptcha.js:39` — `recaptchaUri = 'https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify?secret=${recaptchaSecret}&response=${input.recaptcha}'` - `packages/login-recaptcha/index.js:44` — same pattern for login - `packages/login-hcaptcha/index.js:47` — `body: 'response=${token}&secret=${secret}'` **PoC** ``` input.recaptcha = 'attacker_token&secret=INJECTED_SECRET&something=1' → resulting verify URL: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify?secret=<real>&response=attacker_token&secret=INJECTED_SECRET&something=1 # (replicated exactly from recaptcha.js:39) ``` **Impact** Low: a crafted token smuggles extra `key=value` pairs (`secret`, extra `response`) into the outbound verify call, forcing verification failures (DoS of the captcha gate and of captcha-gated login/form flows) and enabling automated bypass probing; no secret exfiltration. **Remediation** — Build the verify request with `URL` + `searchParams` (or `encodeURIComponent` on both `secret` and `response`), and validate the token against `^[A-Za-z0-9._-]{1,2048}$` before use.
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| npm · @apostrophecms/form | introduced 0, fixed 1.5.5 |
| npm · @apostrophecms/login-recaptcha | introduced 0, fixed 1.2.1 |
| npm · @apostrophecms/login-hcaptcha | introduced 0, fixed 1.3.0 |
References
- https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/security/advisories/GHSA-44qr-rrjg-2cqq WEB
- https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/commit/9500b8b0e1d630d5e07fbb5fd2c25ed0943845ce WEB
- https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/commit/f84fd41cbf6c22eb8d0008fc9c25df1f7130b350 WEB
- https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe PACKAGE
- https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/releases/tag/@apostrophecms/form@1.5.5 WEB
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database |