Cleantalk Spam Protect: Cross-site scripting
Cleantalk Spam Protect is affected by cross-site scripting. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.
- Component
- Cleantalk Spam Protect
- Plugin slug
cleantalk-spam-protect- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Nov 13, 2019
This CVE was published Nov 13, 2019 and is one of 8 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Cleantalk Spam Protect to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The CleanTalk cleantalk-spam-protect plugin before 5.127.4 for WordPress is affected by: Cross Site Scripting (XSS). The impact is: Allows an attacker to execute arbitrary HTML and JavaScript code via the from or till parameter. The component is: inc/cleantalk-users.php and inc/cleantalk-comments.php. The attack vector is: When the Administrator is logged in, a reflected XSS may execute upon a click on a malicious URL.
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N