GHSA-44qr-rrjg-2cqqMedium
ApostropheCMS: CAPTCHA response token not URL-encoded
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 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 loginpackages/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 products3
- npm/@apostrophecms/form:< 1.5.5
- npm/@apostrophecms/login-recaptcha:< 1.2.1
- npm/@apostrophecms/login-hcaptcha:< 1.3.0
🔗 References (5)
- https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/security/advisories/GHSA-44qr-rrjg-2cqq
- https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/commit/9500b8b0e1d630d5e07fbb5fd2c25ed0943845ce
- https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/commit/f84fd41cbf6c22eb8d0008fc9c25df1f7130b350
- https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/releases/tag/@apostrophecms/[email protected]
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-44qr-rrjg-2cqq