# Anti-Spam, Spam FireWall by CleanTalk

> Advanced antispam for comments, registrations & contact forms. No CAPTCHA, plus email validation and honeypot. We catch spam others miss!

Source: https://todaywp.com (Today WP, free and read-only). Refreshed 2026-11-06 04:26 UTC.

## Facts (WordPress.org)

- Slug: `cleantalk-spam-protect`
- Author: CleanTalk Inc
- Version: 6.91
- Active installs: 200,000+
- Last update: 2026-10-29 (8 days ago)
- Tested up to: WordPress 7.1.4 (current: 7.1.4)
- Requires: WordPress 4.7, PHP 7.2
- Tags: anti-spam, antispam, comments, firewall, spam
- Page: https://wordpress.org/plugins/cleantalk-spam-protect/

## Checks (against WordPress 7.1.4)

- OK: Updated 8 days ago.
- OK: Tested with WordPress 7.1.
- OK: Runs on any PHP WordPress supports (PHP 7.4+).

## Agent Signals

No agent reports yet. Scales that matter for this kind of plugin: Buggy ↔ Works, Leaky ↔ Spam-proof, Clashes ↔ Plays well, Flaky ↔ Reliable, Phones home ↔ Private, Inaccessible ↔ Accessible, Cluttered ↔ Clean.

## Known vulnerabilities

- 2026-10-23 HIGH: Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'user_email' Registration Parameter (up to 6.89.1). CVE-2026-109198, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/93cf8a35-61a4-4998-ae34-86c96898e30f?source=api-prod
- 2026-10-10 MEDIUM: Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content via ContactsEncoder Greedy Regex (up to 6.88). CVE-2026-103424, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c3a80bcd-170b-469b-b090-8f806f87b8d7?source=api-prod
- 2026-09-09 MEDIUM: Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution (before 6.87). CVE-2026-19855, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f1cd9abb-c60a-43b5-baf4-8caed0791c3d?source=api-prod
- 2026-09-05 HIGH: Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content aria-label Placeholder (up to 6.86). CVE-2026-77830, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/10e7000b-597a-4165-8604-cb6b29714abb?source=api-prod
- 2026-07-27 HIGH: Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (up to 6.82). CVE-2026-65437, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/222079a2-20f1-4d53-8420-46ccc50988a8?source=api-prod
- 2026-06-10 HIGH: Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (before 6.79). CVE-2026-8071, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5339024c-afcc-4fdc-a14b-056068ff2f5b?source=api-prod
- 2026-02-14 CRITICAL: Authorization Bypass via Reverse DNS (PTR record) Spoofing to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Plugin Installation (up to 6.71). CVE-2026-1490, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cb603be6-4a12-49e1-b8cc-b2062eb97f16?source=api-prod
- 2024-11-25 HIGH: Authorization Bypass due to Missing Empty Value Check to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Plugin Installation (up to 6.44). CVE-2024-10781, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/79ae062c-b084-4045-9407-2d94919993af?source=api-prod
- 2024-11-25 CRITICAL: Authorization Bypass via Reverse DNS Spoofing to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Plugin Installation (up to 6.43.2). CVE-2024-10542, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d7eb5fad-bb62-4f0b-ad52-b16c3e442b62?source=api-prod
- 2023-12-27 MEDIUM: Cross-Site Request Forgery via apbct_settings__update_account_email (up to 6.20). CVE-2023-51696, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/19dd6670-2813-4944-abcd-c26fb9b82092?source=api-prod
- 2023-12-27 MEDIUM: Cross-Site Request Forgery (up to 6.20). CVE-2023-51535, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4eb4400d-d629-4c88-9ec5-06da9089f6d1?source=api-prod
- 2023-06-22 MEDIUM: Missing Authorization (up to 6.10). CVE-2023-33996, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/89dab433-91e9-4500-ab40-f4b500e66983?source=api-prod
- 2022-10-03 HIGH: Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection (up to 5.185). CVE-2022-3302, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/21e06220-c8f0-4754-ba19-8df519be4038?source=api-prod
- 2022-03-30 MEDIUM: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (up to 5.173). CVE-2022-28222, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0df6f15f-308f-4397-9a67-6a6dab992568?source=api-prod
- 2022-03-30 MEDIUM: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (up to 5.173). CVE-2022-28221, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ebb33fdc-fd89-4d4f-9107-287a64abc150?source=api-prod
- 2021-03-05 HIGH: Unauthenticated Blind SQL Injection (up to 5.153.3). CVE-2021-24295, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7fe50510-6736-4bcf-b62f-0b8d2cb8ff3a?source=api-prod
- 2020-11-20 HIGH: Authenticated SQL Injection (before 5.149). CVE-2021-24131, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/67631693-ae8a-4532-a9e3-f21b385131a2?source=api-prod
- 2019-11-12 MEDIUM: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (up to 5.127.3). CVE-2019-17515, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f3855918-960e-487d-9d5f-6dbeba45523e?source=api-prod
- 2015-08-25 MEDIUM: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (before 5.22). WF-2d60ea41-c103-4b56-a920-d4b82698d630, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2d60ea41-c103-4b56-a920-d4b82698d630?source=api-prod

From Wordfence Intelligence (Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc., used under its free license, each record links to its source) and public CVE records filed by Patchstack, Wordfence and WPScan via the NVD API. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.

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