CVE record · CVE-2026-1490

Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk <= 6.71 - Authorization Bypass via Reverse DNS (PTR record) Spoofing to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Plugin Installation

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.013 · 70th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Wordfence) at 15 Feb 2026, 02:22 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
VendorProductVersions
cleantalk Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk
  • affected 6.71 and earlier semver
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-1490
CNA
Wordfence
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-350
Published
15 Feb 2026
Updated
8 Apr 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
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 0.013, the 70th 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 15 Feb 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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