PT-2023-31977 · WordPress · Chatbot

Marco Wotschka · Published 2023-10-18 · Updated 2023-10-25 · CVE-2023-5254

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ChatBot plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 4.8.9

Description The issue allows unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data, including confirmation of whether a user name exists on the site and order information for existing users, via the qcld wb chatbot check user function.

Recommendations For versions up to, and including, 4.8.9, consider disabling the qcld wb chatbot check user function as a temporary workaround until a patch is available. Update to a version later than 4.8.9 to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-5254

Affected Products

Chatbot

References · 8

• 🔥 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/chatbot/trunk/functions.php#L1224 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5254 · Security Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2977505%40chatbot%2Ftrunk&old=2967435%40chatbot%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-5254 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvenotify/59968 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1714882299463086345 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1714956117770371543 · Twitter Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d897daf8-5320-4546-9a63-1d34a15b2a58?source=cve · Note