CVE-2021-47972

Sticky Notes & Color Widgets 1.4.2 Denial of Service

Published May 16, 2026 CVSS 4.0 · 8.7 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

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

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
Type Values Removed Values Added
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'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
VulnCheck
Published
Updated
May 18, 2026, 5:53 PM
Reserved
May 16, 2026, 2:31 PM
Status
Deferred
Published
May 16, 2026, 4:16 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 4:18 AM