CVE-2019-17515 describes a reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the CleanTalk cleantalk-spam-protect plugin for WordPress, affecting versions prior to 5.127.4. This flaw allows an attacker to inject arbitrary HTML and JavaScript code through the 'from' or 'till' parameters within 'inc/cleantalk-users.php' and 'inc/cleantalk-comments.php'. Rated as Medium severity (CVSS 6.1), exploitation requires an authenticated administrator to click a malicious URL, leading to potential client-side code execution. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 5.127.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cleantalk:spam_protection\,_antispam\,_firewall:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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