CVE-2024-10542

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.

References

https://www.securityweek.com/critical-vulnerabilities-found-in-anti-spam-plugin-used-by-200000-wordpress-sites/

https://thehackernews.com/2024/11/critical-wordpress-anti-spam-plugin.html

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

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2024/11/200000-wordpress-sites-affected-by-unauthenticated-critical-vulnerabilities-in-anti-spam-by-cleantalk-wordpress-plugin/

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3