CVE record · CVE-2024-10542

Spam protection, Anti-Spam, FireWall by CleanTalk <= 6.43.2 - Authorization Bypass via Reverse DNS Spoofing to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Plugin Installation

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.15 · 96th percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.
CVSS score 9.8 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.15 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Wordfence) at 26 Nov 2024, 05:33 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
cleantalk	Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk	affected 6.43.2 and earlier semver Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers: CVE-2024-10542
CNA: Wordfence
Weakness (CWE): CWE-862
Tags: Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk
Broken access control
Published: 26 Nov 2024
Updated: 8 Apr 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
9.8	Critical	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (Wordfence)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.15, the 96th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 26 Nov 2024. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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