Comments

Comments has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2026; it is fixed as of August 2026. Their average CVSS score is 7.2, and the most serious one scores 7.2 out of 10. Severity breakdown: 0 critical and 1 high.

The most common weakness is Cross-Site Scripting, behind 1 of the records (100%).

The one issue recorded for Comments has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes it.

All of these findings were reported by Hieus. Comments is installed on roughly 100 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 4.8.30.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSHigh
7.2/ 10
Patch Coverage100%
Open

0

Fixed

1

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Highest severity on recordCVSS 7.2CVE-2026-15032

wpDiscuz <= 7.6.59 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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Vulnerability Records

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Plugin Profile
Latestv1.0.0
0.0(0)
0/100
Last Updated
2016-12-09 (10y ago)
Active Installs
100+
Downloads
10,576
Requires WP
3.0+
Requires PHP
0+
Tested up to
WP 4.8.30
Created
2014-07-10 (12y ago)

Fine tune comments in WordPress. You can find the settings page under Comments > Settings in the dashboard. Features remove comments from post type: posts, pages, attachments and other public custom post types [more coming soon] I am open to your suggestions for more features here or in the github repository

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