Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Nov 26, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2024-10542
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.
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Affected products
4- Range: <=6.43.2
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Patches
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References
3- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3179819/cleantalk-spam-protectnvdPatch
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d7eb5fad-bb62-4f0b-ad52-b16c3e442b62nvdThird Party Advisory
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/tags/6.43.2/lib/Cleantalk/ApbctWP/RemoteCalls.phpnvdProduct
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