CVE-2021-47972 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2021-47972

Sticky Notes & Color Widgets 1.4.2 Denial of Service

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Geovanni Ruiz

Affected Vendor

sticky-notes-color-widgets

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Affected Software

Sticky Notes Color Widgets
Vulnerable Versions:
1.4.2

Timeline

Official Publish: May 16th, 2026
Last Modified: May 18th, 2026
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.