CVE-2025-13604 (GCVE-0-2025-13604)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-09 04:36
Modified
2025-12-09 15:01
Severity ?
7.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Summary
The Login Security, FireWall, Malware removal by CleanTalk plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the page URL in all versions up to, and including, 2.168 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
cleantalk Login Security, FireWall, Malware removal by CleanTalk Version: *   ≤ 2.168
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