Known vulnerabilities in Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection

The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce.

2Reported vulnerabilities

6.1Highest CVSS score

5.7.1Latest version

5,000,000+Active installs

What to do now

Update Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection to 3.1.5 or later. 2 of these have a fixed version available. Updating resolves them.

Plugin last updated: August 17, 2026 / Tested up to WordPress: 7.1 / View on wordpress.org

Reported vulnerabilities

Ordered by how urgently they need attention — whether a vulnerability is actually being exploited, and how likely exploitation is, rather than CVSS severity alone.

CVE	Severity	Exploit probability next 30 days	Affected versions	Fixed in	Published
CVE-2007-2714	Medium 6.1	11.2%	2.0.1 and earlier	`2.0.2`	May 14, 2007
CVE-2015-9357	Medium 6.1	1.0%	Before 3.1.5	`3.1.5`	August 28, 2019

Sources: vulnerability records from NVD, exploitation from CISA KEV, exploit probability from EPSS. Affected versions come from CPE ranges or from the reporting CNA.