CVE-2021-47972

Sticky Notes & Color Widgets 1.4.2 Denial of Service

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: May 16, 2026 at 03:26 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:18 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorSticky Notes & Color Widgets

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
SSVC
PoC

Description

Sticky Notes & Color Widgets 1.4.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by creating notes with excessively long character strings. Attackers can paste large payloads of repeated characters into note fields to trigger application crashes and make the application stop responding.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCPoCAutomatablePartial impact

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CVSS

7.5HIGHVulnCheck
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-789

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