The Anti-Spam by CleanTalk – Spam Protection Without CAPTCHA plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'user_email' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 6.89.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. Successful exploitation requires user registration to be open on the site, and script execution is triggered when an Administrator subsequently runs the plugin's user-spam scan and views the resulting Non-checkable users or Spam users tab — the plugin's own documented workflow.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 5
- StatusPublished → DeferredNVD modified 2026-10-23 14:20
- StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-23 10:56
- StatusPublished → ReceivedNVD modified 2026-10-23 12:18
- StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-23 04:31
- First seenCVSS 7.2NVD modified 2026-10-23 05:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 6
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.89.1/inc/cleantalk-public-integrations.php#L882
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.89.1/lib/Cleantalk/ApbctWP/FindSpam/ListTable/BadUsers.php#L87
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.89.1/lib/Cleantalk/ApbctWP/FindSpam/ListTable/Users.php#L113
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.89.1/lib/Cleantalk/ApbctWP/FindSpam/UsersChecker.php#L182
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3747972%40cleantalk-spam-protect&new=3747972%40cleantalk-spam-protect
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/93cf8a35-61a4-4998-ae34-86c96898e30f?source=cve