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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-19855 EUVD-2026-74721GHSA-5543-49w7-m8jw

Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk < 6.87 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via Comment Text

Published Sep 9, 2026 · Updated Sep 9, 2026 · Assigned by WPScan

Description

The CleanTalk WordPress plugin before 6.87 does not prevent unauthenticated, user-supplied comment content from being passed to WordPress's shortcode engine, allowing any visitor to have arbitrary shortcodes registered on the site executed server-side and rendered to every subsequent visitor of the page.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— CleanTalk < 6.87 6.87

References