CVE•Published 2026-09-09•Modified 2026-09-09•0 articles on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-85117
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
6.5
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS percentile
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Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
The Contact Form 7 Captcha WordPress plugin before 0.1.9 runs the shortcode parser over the whole rendered Contact Form 7 form, including the values a visitor submitted, allowing unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary shortcodes registered on the site.
Timeline
Published 2026-09-09
Modified 2026-09-09
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common). Live host counts are a Premium feature.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-85117Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-85117Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-85117Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-85117GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-85117" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-85117 on GitHub.
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