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CVE-2024-10781: The Spam protection, Anti-Spam, FireWall by CleanTalk plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized Arbitrary Plugin Installation due to an missing empty value check on the 'api_key' value in the

high Affects cleantalk-spam-protect (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published ; advisory modified .

The Spam protection, Anti-Spam, FireWall by CleanTalk plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized Arbitrary Plugin Installation due to an missing empty value check on the 'api_key' value in the

Package
cleantalk-spam-protect (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<6.45
Fixed in
6.45
Severity
high  CVSS 8.1
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 4% (89.7th percentile)
Published
2024-11-26
Source
nvd

References

CWE-703
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