CVE•Published 2026-06-10•Modified 2026-07-23•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data

CVE-2026-8071

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS percentile

Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 78% of all CVEs

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Description

The Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Spam protection WordPress plugin before 6.79 does not properly sanitize content within a custom shortcode used in its email-encoding feature, allowing unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts into approved comments that will execute when any user (including administrators) views the post.

Timeline

Published 2026-06-10

Modified 2026-07-23

External references

NVD MITRE Exploit-DB GitHub PoC trickest/cve VulnCheck

Search for exposed instances

Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).

Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts

vuln:CVE-2026-8071

Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.

More intel sources (5)

Shodan report

vuln:CVE-2026-8071

Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.

Censys

vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-8071

Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.

grep.app

CVE-2026-8071