PT-2015-5560 · Acobot · Acobot Live Chat & Contact Form

Published 2015-02-20 · Updated 2017-09-08 · CVE-2015-2039

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Acobot Live Chat & Contact Form plugin version 2.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests, enabling them to change plugin settings or conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. This is achieved via the acobot token parameter in the "acobot" page to "wp-admin/options-general.php".

Recommendations For Acobot Live Chat & Contact Form plugin version 2.0, consider disabling the plugin until a patch is available to prevent exploitation. Avoid using the acobot token parameter in the affected API endpoint until the issue is resolved.

Fix

CSRF

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-352

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-2039

Affected Products

Acobot Live Chat & Contact Form

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2039 · Security Note
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130306/WordPress-Acobot-Live-Chat-And-Contact-Form-2.0-CSRF-XSS.html · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100814 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100813 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2039 · Note