Stop Spam Comments <= 0.2.1.2 - Protection Mechanism Bypass

Protection Mechanism Failure
CVE CVE-2022-1663
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published August 8, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Daniel Ruf
Description

The Stop Spam Comments plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to protection mechanism bypass on the p_ssc_process() function in versions up to, and including, 0.2.1.2 due to the method in which the spam comment key is generated and stored on the page. This makes it possible for attackers to easily scrape a web-page and continue to submit spam comments.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug stop-spam-comments (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 0.2.1.2
Patched Version
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