Remove Captcha from request

Ignoring CAPTCHA validation without the field present in the backend server can result in severe damage and vulnerabilities.

Lack of Resources & Rate Limiting (RL)

Impact of the vulnerability

Bypassing CAPTCHA protection enables hackers to automate malicious activities, such as unauthorized account access, spamming, data harvesting, and DDoS attacks.

How this template works

APIs Selection

The template uses API selection filters to specify the conditions for selecting the API requests to be executed. It filters requests based on the response code being between 200 and 300, or if the request payload or query parameter contains the word "captcha". It also extracts the value of the "captcha_key" from the request payload or query parameter.

Execute request

The template specifies a single request to be executed. It uses the extracted "captcha_key" value to delete the corresponding body parameter and query parameter from the request.

Validation

The template defines the validation criteria for the response. It checks that the response code is between 200 and 300, the percentage match of the response payload is greater than 80%, and the length of the response payload is greater than 0.

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