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Aimy Captcha-Less Form Guard: The Anti-Bot Plugin That Hands Bots the Keys

VulnCheck's Initial Access Intelligence team details an unauthenticated PHP object injection in the Aimy Captcha-Less Form Guard plugin for Joomla, where a repeating-key XOR published alongside its own ciphertext turns every protected form into an unserialize() sink and, on Joomla 3.9 through 5.2.1, into remote code execution.

Reference details

Source category
Research & news
Report title
Aimy Captcha-Less Form Guard: The Anti-Bot Plugin That Hands Bots the Keys
First reported
Jul 30, 2026 00:00 UTC
Last reported
Jul 30, 2026 00:00 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 08, 2026 03:54 UTC
Record ID
f4b476caa03a20746a54bec9aa3d329408f15d556b58feb7399b7d79b8ab74ab

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Source observations

src_dd4a4c98d64bc46b3f

Source-provided label
Not reported
Evidence class
mentioned in report
Confidence
Not reported
Observed
Jul 30, 2026 00:00 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 08, 2026 03:54 UTC

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1 sources: 0 stale, 0 needing attention, 0 paused, 1 unverified.

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  • src_dd4a4c98d64bc46b3fCollection status unverifiedLast successful batch: Unverified

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