Acobot Live Chat & Contact Form <= 2.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery and Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2015-2039
CVSS Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published January 26, 2015
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Kenneth Jepsen, Mikkel Vej, Morten Nortoft
Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Acobot Live Chat & Contact Form plugin 2.0 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) change plugin settings or (2) conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the acobot_token parameter in the acobot page to wp-admin/options-general.php.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug acobot (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0
Patched Version
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