PT-2024-14826 · WordPress · Chatbot For Wordpress

Huynh Tien Si · Published 2024-01-11 · Updated 2025-06-03 · CVE-2023-5691

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions The Chatbot for WordPress plugin for WordPress version 2.3.9

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This allows authenticated attackers with administrator-level permissions and above to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The issue only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered html has been disabled.

Recommendations For version 2.3.9, update to a newer version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping issue to prevent Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to admin settings to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-5691

Affected Products

Chatbot For Wordpress

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5691 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-5691 · Vendor Advisory
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3000724%40collectchat%2Ftrunk&old=2983408%40collectchat%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · Patch
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1745365001433755707 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1745408696568443115 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/124473 · Telegram Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dfd67329-11b1-4f00-a422-bb4833a3181d?source=cve · Note