๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2026-19855

MEDIUM 6.5

Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk < 6.87 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via Comment Text

CVSS Score
6.5
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The CleanTalk WordPress plugin before 6.87 does not prevent unauthenticated, user-supplied comment content from being passed to WordPress's shortcode engine, allowing any visitor to have arbitrary shortcodes registered on the site executed server-side and rendered to every subsequent visitor of the page.

Vendor unknown
Product cleantalk
Published Sep 9, 2026
Last Updated Sep 9, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

Unknown / CleanTalk
0 < 6.87

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
wpscan.com: https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c27f3657-261a-46cd-860c-0bdf5c849190/

Credits

Jakub Herman WPScan