CVE-2024-10542

Published: Nov 26, 2024Modified: Jul 12, 2025

7.5

Vector

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

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

Description

The Spam protection, Anti-Spam, FireWall by CleanTalk plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized Arbitrary Plugin Installation due to an authorization bypass via reverse DNS spoofing on the checkWithoutToken function in all versions up to, and including, 6.43.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to install and activate arbitrary plugins which can be leveraged to achieve remote code execution if another vulnerable plugin is installed and activated.

Affected (1)

Products: Cleantalk: Anti Spam

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Cleantalk Anti Spam	Before 6.44

Related CWEs

Missing Authorization

The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

References (3)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.43.2/lib/Cleantalk/ApbctWP/RemoteCalls.php#L41

Source: security@wordfence.com

Product

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3179819/cleantalk-spam-protect#file631

Source: security@wordfence.com

Patch

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d7eb5fad-bb62-4f0b-ad52-b16c3e442b62?source=cve

Source: security@wordfence.com

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