Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessBrowse public giveaway page
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ExploitInspect embedded giveaway settings
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ExecutionExtract reCAPTCHA secret key
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ImpactAbuse key to bypass bot protection
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V14 - Data Protection Data exposure prevention
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Collection, Discovery The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires a target RafflePress giveaway that is both active (published/public-facing) AND has reCAPTCHA configured - the secret key is only embedded in the settings of such giveaways; sites running the plugin without reCAPTCHA-enabled active giveaways are not exposed even on vulnerable versions (before 1.12.27). When that condition holds, no further prerequisites exist: unauthenticated visitors can retrieve the key directly from the public giveaway page with no authentication, no user interaction, and no non-default tooling. The primary limiting factor is therefore configuration-dependent exposure (reCAPTCHA must be set up on a live giveaway), not access control. |
| Impact | This is a moderate-severity information disclosure flaw (CVSS 5.3) whose signals are internally consistent but point to limited real-world urgency. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) confirms the leak is reachable remotely by unauthenticated visitors with no interaction and low complexity, which raises exposure, but the impact is narrowly scoped to confidentiality only (C:L/I:N/A:N) - the single artifact exposed is the reCAPTCHA secret key, not site or user data. No EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public POC were provided in the input, so exploitation status is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis'; there is no evidence of active exploitation. The practical consequence of a leaked reCAPTCHA secret is degraded bot protection (an attacker can forge/validate reCAPTCHA responses or abuse the key), not direct compromise, which is why this correctly rates medium rather than critical despite the unauthenticated network vector. This is a real but low-priority issue: patch in routine cycles rather than emergency. Note a scoping condition the raw CVSS does not capture - the leak only materializes for giveaways that are both active and have reCAPTCHA configured, so sites without that configuration are unaffected even on vulnerable versions. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An unauthenticated attacker browses to a public giveaway page served by a vulnerable RafflePress installation and inspects the embedded giveaway settings in the page source or associated API/JSON output, where the reCAPTCHA secret key is exposed. The attacker extracts the secret key and can then forge or validate reCAPTCHA tokens, undermining the bot/spam protection the site relies on. No authentication, user interaction, or special tooling is required given the AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N vector, though no public exploit code has been identified. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 02, 2026
Information disclosure in the Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress WordPress plugin before 1.12.27 exposes the reCAPTCHA secret key to unauthenticated visitors on any active giveaway page that has reCAPTCHA configured. Retrieval requires no authentication, no user interaction, and no special tooling because the plugin embeds the secret key in the public giveaway settings rather than keeping it server-side. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the issue is configuration-dependent: sites running a vulnerable version without an active reCAPTCHA-enabled giveaway are not exposed.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: update the RafflePress plugin to version 1.12.27 or later, which removes the reCAPTCHA secret key from public giveaway output. If immediate upgrading is not possible, disable reCAPTCHA configuration on any active giveaway (trade-off: the giveaway entry form loses its bot and spam protection) or unpublish/deactivate the affected giveaways and the plugin until patched. Regardless of mitigation, rotate the exposed reCAPTCHA secret key in the Google reCAPTCHA admin console, since any previously embedded key should be considered compromised. Consult the WPScan advisory at https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f8779fd4-f362-40c4-8df1-145620c69103/ and the NVD entry at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-97317 for the latest details.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The flaw is classified as CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor) in a WordPress plugin. RafflePress stores reCAPTCHA configuration, including the secret key that is intended for server-side validation of Google reCAPTCHA responses, and renders it into the settings of public-facing giveaway pages. Because the key is embedded in publicly served markup rather than restricted to backend configuration, any unauthenticated visitor loading an active giveaway page can read it. The affected range is all versions before 1.12.27 per the EUVD entry. The CVSS 3.1 vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N confirms the attacker can be remote and unauthenticated, no user interaction is needed, and only confidentiality is impacted at a low level, with no effect on integrity or availability.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Unauthenticated remote visitor reads the key from a public page (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N); only a single secret is disclosed with no integrity or availability impact, so C:L/I:N/A:N.
Primary rating from Vendor (wpscan).
CVSS VectorVendor: wpscan
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
The Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress WordPress plugin before 1.12.27 does not remove the reCAPTCHA secret key from the giveaway settings it embeds in public giveaway pages, allowing unauthenticated visitors to retrieve the secret key of any active giveaway that has reCAPTCHA configured.
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