Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalk <= 5.173 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVE	CVE-2022-28222
CVSS	Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published	March 30, 2022
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	Ram

Description

The CleanTalk AntiSpam plugin <= 5.173 for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via the $_REQUEST['page'] parameter in the /lib/Cleantalk/ApbctWP/FindSpam/ListTable/Users.php file.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	cleantalk-spam-protect (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 5.173
Patched Version	5.174.1

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