CVE-2021-47972

HIGH EPSS 20.1%
Published May 16, 20261mo ago · Modified Jun 17, 20261w ago
8.7 CVSS 4.0
High
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Published May 16, 2026 1mo ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 1w ago

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.

CVSS Details

Base Score
8.7
Exploitability
Impact
Vector string
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope X

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
20.1% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
No Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-789

References 2

  • exploit-db.com https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49957
  • vulncheck.com https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sticky-notes-color-widgets-denial-of-service

Remediation

No remediation data recorded yet

Check vendor advisories and the NVD entry for patch availability.