Vulnerability · Published Oct 15, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck
CVE-2026-111278NivoCart through 2.5.1 CAPTCHA Bypass via Answer Disclosed in Page HTML
Medium 5.3
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in nivocart from nivocart. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 25% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
NivoCart through 2.5.1 contains a CAPTCHA bypass vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to defeat form protection because the expected code is printed as plain text in the HTML. Attackers can fetch protected forms, extract the captcha_image value with a pattern match, and submit it to automate spam, registrations, reviews, and account deletion requests.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-804 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
References
- GitHub Issue #27 issue-tracking
- https://github.com/nivocart/nivocart/blob/5bc2c3fc7caed9846b58959183f8ccf599cd4399/upload/catalog/controller/information/contact.php#L144-L150 technical-description
- https://github.com/nivocart/nivocart/blob/5bc2c3fc7caed9846b58959183f8ccf599cd4399/upload/catalog/view/theme/default/template/information/contact.tpl#L43 technical-description
- https://github.com/nivocart/nivocart product
- VulnCheck Advisory: NivoCart through 2.5.1 CAPTCHA Bypass via Answer Disclosed in Page HTML third-party-advisory