The Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Spam protection WordPress plugin before 6.79 does not properly sanitize content within a custom shortcode used in its email-encoding feature, allowing unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts into approved comments that will execute when any user (including administrators) views the post.
History

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-79

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description The Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Spam protection WordPress plugin before 6.79 does not properly sanitize content within a custom shortcode used in its email-encoding feature, allowing unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts into approved comments that will execute when any user (including administrators) views the post.
Title Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk < 6.79 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS via Comment Shortcode Bypass
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2026-06-10T06:00:11.562Z

Reserved: 2026-05-07T09:10:25.699Z

Link: CVE-2026-8071

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-06-10T07:16:25.373

Modified: 2026-06-10T07:16:25.373

Link: CVE-2026-8071

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-06-10T07:30:25Z