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
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https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.84/cleantalk.php#L234 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.84/lib/Cleantalk/ApbctWP/ContactsEncoder/ContactsEncoder.php#L114 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.84/lib/Cleantalk/Common/ContactsEncoder/ContactsEncoder.php#L914 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.84/lib/Cleantalk/Common/ContactsEncoder/ContactsEncoder.php#L933 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.85/cleantalk.php#L234 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.85/lib/Cleantalk/ApbctWP/ContactsEncoder/ContactsEncoder.php#L114 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.85/lib/Cleantalk/Common/ContactsEncoder/ContactsEncoder.php#L914 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.85/lib/Cleantalk/Common/ContactsEncoder/ContactsEncoder.php#L933 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3677388/cleantalk-spam-protect/trunk/lib/Cleantalk/Common/ContactsEncoder/ContactsEncoder.php cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fcleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.86&new_path=%2Fcleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.87 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3677388%40cleantalk-spam-protect%2Ftags%2F6.87&old=3654120%40cleantalk-spam-protect%2Ftags%2F6.86 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/10e7000b-597a-4165-8604-cb6b29714abb?source=cve cve-icon cve-icon
History

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First Time appeared Cleantalk
Cleantalk spam Protection, Honeypot, Anti-spam By Cleantalk
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Vendors & Products Cleantalk
Cleantalk spam Protection, Honeypot, Anti-spam By Cleantalk
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress

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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.
Title Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk <= 6.86 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content aria-label Placeholder
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-05T06:37:55.593Z

Reserved: 2026-08-21T14:54:08.589Z

Link: CVE-2026-77830

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-05T07:17:12.163

Modified: 2026-09-05T07:17:12.163

Link: CVE-2026-77830

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-05T07:30:17Z