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CVE-2026-8071

The Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Spam protection WordPress plugin before 6.79 does not properly sanitize content within a custom shortcode used in its email-encoding feature, allowing unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts into approved comments that will execute when any user (including administrators) views the post.

Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:630b06854325d6a7effcb554f3235e9ba8f3b9a02d40a815edcb532b6655af67

Known exploited

Not asserted

Disputed

Stale source

Conflicts

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

cwe · 2 assertions

{"cweId":"CWE-79","description":"CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
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{"description":"CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:ce09274c26993e9cbf684cb22dd1f5f3bbc631d8efa08178f531d1691f1d9d6a · sha256:c8489b357d07d830… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion

{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Spam protection","vendor":"Unknown","versions":[{"lessThan":"6.79","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}

cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
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Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion

{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackVector":"NETWORK","availabilityImpact":"HIGH","baseScore":8.8,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","confidentialityImpact":"HIGH","integrityImpact":"HIGH","privilegesRequired":"NONE","scope":"UNCHANGED","userInteraction":"REQUIRED","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:ce09274c26993e9cbf684cb22dd1f5f3bbc631d8efa08178f531d1691f1d9d6a · sha256:c8489b357d07d830… · /containers/adp/0/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

CWE assertions

2 source assertions

{"cweId":"CWE-79","description":"CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:ce09274c26993e9cbf684cb22dd1f5f3bbc631d8efa08178f531d1691f1d9d6a · sha256:c8489b357d07d830… · /containers/adp/0/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

{"description":"CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:ce09274c26993e9cbf684cb22dd1f5f3bbc631d8efa08178f531d1691f1d9d6a · sha256:c8489b357d07d830… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

1 source assertion

{"tags":["exploit","vdb-entry","technical-description"],"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0d4635b5-2d79-4337-a1ad-6b8d02cfd64b/"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
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Attribution and limitations

CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

Provider severity values are preserved separately. Baitaphish does not convert them into a risk rating, infer affected products, or treat EPSS as observed exploitation.

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