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CVE-2022-28221: cleantalk antispam Cross-site Scripting

CVSS: 6.1v3.1MediumModified
Published 19-04-2022Last modified 07-02-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-28221 is a medium (CVSS 6.1) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in cleantalk antispam. EPSS estimates a 2.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83.8% of scored vulnerabilities. Fixed in 5.174.1.

Overall risk
25/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.1/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
2.40%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 19-04-2022
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-02-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

2.40%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

84%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 2.40% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
2.40%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Cleantalk2 products
Wordpress1 product
  • cleantalk-spam-protect≤ 5.173 (fixed in 5.174.1)

2 vendors · 3 products

References

2 links