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.
Published: 2026-05-16
Score: 8.7 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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History

Mon, 18 May 2026 19:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Sun, 17 May 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Sticky-notes-color-widgets
Sticky-notes-color-widgets sticky Notes Color Widgets
Vendors & Products Sticky-notes-color-widgets
Sticky-notes-color-widgets sticky Notes Color Widgets

Sat, 16 May 2026 15:45:00 +0000

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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.
Title Sticky Notes & Color Widgets 1.4.2 Denial of Service
Weaknesses CWE-789
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': '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'}


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Sticky-notes-color-widgets Sticky Notes Color Widgets
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-18T17:53:20.663Z

Reserved: 2026-05-16T14:31:35.596Z

Link: CVE-2021-47972

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-05-18T17:21:24.692Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-05-16T16:16:22.587

Modified: 2026-06-17T04:18:51.400

Link: CVE-2021-47972

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-05-17T17:00:37Z

Weaknesses