🛡️ CVE-2014-6288 — powermail

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-287 OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

TYPO3 powermail extension allows remote attackers to bypass CAPTCHA protection mechanism

The powermail extension 2.x before 2.0.11 for TYPO3 allows remote attackers to bypass the CAPTCHA protection mechanism via unspecified vectors.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2014-6288 is classified as CWE-287: Improper Authentication. The identity of the caller is not established correctly, so an attacker can act as another user.

Affected software

CVE-2014-6288 is recorded against 1 package.

  • in2code/powermail (from 2.0.0 up to 2.0.11)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2022 and last revised on 14 April 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
typo3.org (Web)
typo3.org (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
CWE CWE-287
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2025-04-14
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
in2code/powermail 2.0.0 2.0.11

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