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.
Published: 2026-09-09
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
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Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
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.
Title Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk < 6.87 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via Comment Text
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-09T06:25:05.235Z

Reserved: 2026-08-14T09:43:54.757Z

Link: CVE-2026-19855

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-09T07:16:56.500

Modified: 2026-09-09T07:16:56.500

Link: CVE-2026-19855

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