High severity · published Sep 5, 2026
CVE-2026-77830
Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk <= 6.86 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content aria-label Placeholder
7.2
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 41% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SP
Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk · cleantalk
through 6.86 · source: vendor
Affected product
SP
Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk
cleantalk
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-77830
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-77830
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.84/cleantalk.php#L234
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.84/lib/Cleantalk/ApbctWP/ContactsEncoder/ContactsEncoder.php#L114
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.84/lib/Cleantalk/Common/ContactsEncoder/ContactsEncoder.php#L914
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.84/lib/Cleantalk/Common/ContactsEncoder/ContactsEncoder.php#L933
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.85/cleantalk.php#L234
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.85/lib/Cleantalk/ApbctWP/ContactsEncoder/ContactsEncoder.php#L114
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