CVE-2019-17515

MEDIUM 6.1CVE-2019-17515 · Published 13/11/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2019-17515 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.1) vulnerability affecting spam protection, antispam, firewall (cleantalk).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.3%, higher than 70.6% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 5.127.4 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
spam protection, antispam, firewall cleantalk	`< 5.127.4`	`5.127.4`

Description

The CleanTalk cleantalk-spam-protect plugin before 5.127.4 for WordPress is affected by: Cross Site Scripting (XSS). The impact is: Allows an attacker to execute arbitrary HTML and JavaScript code via the from or till parameter. The component is: inc/cleantalk-users.php and inc/cleantalk-comments.php. The attack vector is: When the Administrator is logged in, a reflected XSS may execute upon a click on a malicious URL.

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2172333 · Patch
wordpress.org/plugins/cleantalk-spam-protect · Product
wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9949 · Third Party Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

spam protection, antispam, firewall

cleantalk

< 5.127.4

5.127.4

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