{"id":200242,"date":"2024-11-27T05:24:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T11:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/critical-wordpress-anti-spam-plugin-flaws-expose-200000-sites-to-remote-attacks"},"modified":"2024-11-27T05:24:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T11:24:43","slug":"critical-wordpress-anti-spam-plugin-flaws-expose-200000-sites-to-remote-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/critical-wordpress-anti-spam-plugin-flaws-expose-200000-sites-to-remote-attacks","title":{"rendered":"Critical WordPress Anti-Spam Plugin Flaws Expose 200,000+ Sites to Remote Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/critical-wordpress-anti-spam-plugin-flaws-expose-200000-sites-to-remote-attacks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two critical security flaws impacting the Spam protection, Anti-Spam, and FireWall plugin WordPress could allow an unauthenticated attacker to install and enable malicious plugins on susceptible sites and potentially achieve remote code execution.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerabilities, tracked as <strong>CVE-2024\u201310542<\/strong> and <strong>CVE-2024\u201310781<\/strong>, carry a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. They were addressed in versions 6.44 and 6.45 released this month.<\/p>\n<p>Installed on over 200,000 WordPress sites, CleanTalk\u2019s Spam protection, Anti-Spam, FireWall plugin is <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/cleantalk-spam-protect\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">advertised<\/a> as a \u201cuniversal anti-spam plugin\u201d that blocks spam comments, registrations, surveys, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two critical security flaws impacting the Spam protection, Anti-Spam, and FireWall plugin WordPress could allow an unauthenticated attacker to install and enable malicious plugins on susceptible sites and potentially achieve remote code execution. The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2024\u201310542 and CVE-2024\u201310781, carry a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. They were addressed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}