GHSA-44qr-rrjg-2cqq

Suggest an improvement
Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-44qr-rrjg-2cqq
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/10/GHSA-44qr-rrjg-2cqq/GHSA-44qr-rrjg-2cqq.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-44qr-rrjg-2cqq
Aliases
Published
2026-10-20T18:05:35Z
Modified
2026-10-20T18:15:04Z
Severity
  • 5.3 (Medium) 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 CVSS Calculator
Summary
ApostropheCMS: CAPTCHA response token not URL-encoded
Details

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.

Database specific
{
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-116"
    ],
    "github_reviewed":  true,
    "github_reviewed_at":  "2026-10-20T18:05:35Z",
    "nvd_published_at":  null,
    "severity":  "MODERATE"
}
References

Affected packages

npm / @apostrophecms/form

Package

Name
@apostrophecms/form
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:npm/%40apostrophecms/form

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.5.5

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/10/GHSA-44qr-rrjg-2cqq/GHSA-44qr-rrjg-2cqq.json"

npm / @apostrophecms/login-recaptcha

Package

Name
@apostrophecms/login-recaptcha
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:npm/%40apostrophecms/login-recaptcha

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.2.1

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/10/GHSA-44qr-rrjg-2cqq/GHSA-44qr-rrjg-2cqq.json"

npm / @apostrophecms/login-hcaptcha

Package

Name
@apostrophecms/login-hcaptcha
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:npm/%40apostrophecms/login-hcaptcha

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.3.0

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/10/GHSA-44qr-rrjg-2cqq/GHSA-44qr-rrjg-2cqq.json"