ChatBot <= 4.4.4 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Cross-Site Request Forgery

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2023-1011
CVSS Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published April 20, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Erwan LR
Description

The ChatBot plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin settings in versions up to, and including, 4.4.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping and a lack of nonce check on the 'openai_settings_option_callback' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page, granted they can trick an authenticated user into performing an action, such as clicking a link.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug chatbot (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.4.4
Patched Version
  • 4.4.5
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