Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalk <= 5.173 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

6.1
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2022-28221
CVSS 6.1 (Medium)
Publicly Published March 30, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Ram - Wordfence

Description

The CleanTalk AntiSpam plugin <= 5.173 for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via the $_REQUEST['page'] parameter found in the /lib/Cleantalk/ApbctWP/FindSpam/ListTable/Comments.php file.

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Vulnerability Details for Spam protection, Anti-Spam, FireWall by CleanTalk

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug cleantalk-spam-protect (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 5.174.1, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 5.173
Patched Version
  • 5.174.1

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