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CVE-2022-28222 — Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk [cleantalk-spam-protect] < 5.174.1

CVE Vulnerability Type Severity Affected Fixed in Published Status
CVE-2022-28222 Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk [cleantalk-spam-protect] < 5.174.1 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Medium 6.1 < 5.174.1 5.174.1 2022-03-30

CVE-2022-28222

The CleanTalk Spam Protection plugin before version 5.174.1 contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability where the page parameter is neither properly sanitized nor escaped before being output in HTML attributes on the comments editing page and users list dashboard. An attacker could exploit this flaw by crafting a malicious URL that executes arbitrary JavaScript in the context of a logged-in administrator's browser session.

Based on public CVE data (MITRE/NVD).

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