CVE-2026-19855
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…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.18%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.18% probability · 8th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-74
- Source
- contact@wpscan.com
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.