CVE-2026-77830

high

Description

The Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content aria-label Placeholder in all versions up to, and including, 6.86 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with custom-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The payload is deliverable via unauthenticated comment submission and executes exclusively for non-logged-in visitors; if comment moderation is enabled, an approving moderator must first publish the comment before the script reaches other users.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/10e7000b-597a-4165-8604-cb6b29714abb?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3677388%40cleantalk-spam-protect%2Ftags%2F6.87&old=3654120%40cleantalk-spam-protect%2Ftags%2F6.86

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fcleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.86&new_path=%2Fcleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.87

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3677388/cleantalk-spam-protect/trunk/lib/Cleantalk/Common/ContactsEncoder/ContactsEncoder.php

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.85/lib/Cleantalk/Common/ContactsEncoder/ContactsEncoder.php#L933

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.85/lib/Cleantalk/Common/ContactsEncoder/ContactsEncoder.php#L914

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.85/lib/Cleantalk/ApbctWP/ContactsEncoder/ContactsEncoder.php#L114

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.85/cleantalk.php#L234

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.84/lib/Cleantalk/Common/ContactsEncoder/ContactsEncoder.php#L933

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.84/lib/Cleantalk/Common/ContactsEncoder/ContactsEncoder.php#L914

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.84/lib/Cleantalk/ApbctWP/ContactsEncoder/ContactsEncoder.php#L114

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.84/cleantalk.php#L234

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-05

Updated: 2026-09-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00273