CVE-2026-77830
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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
Propose a mitigation on Community Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.84/cleantalk.php#L234
- 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/lib/Cleantalk/Common/ContactsEncoder/ContactsEncoder.php#L914
- 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/6.85/cleantalk.php#L234
- 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/lib/Cleantalk/Common/ContactsEncoder/ContactsEncoder.php#L914
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.85/lib/Cleantalk/Common/ContactsEncoder/ContactsEncoder.php#L933
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3677388/cleantalk-spam-protect/trunk/lib/Cleantalk/Common/ContactsEncoder/ContactsEncoder.php
- 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?reponame=&new=3677388%40cleantalk-spam-protect%2Ftags%2F6.87&old=3654120%40cleantalk-spam-protect%2Ftags%2F6.86
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/10e7000b-597a-4165-8604-cb6b29714abb?source=cve
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.