Chatbot with IBM Watson < 0.8.21 - Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVE	CVE-2020-7239
CVSS	Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published	January 21, 2020
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	Cary Hooper

Description

The Chatbot with IBM Watson plugin before 0.8.21 for WordPress has a DOM-based XSS vulnerability that is executed when a chat message containing JavaScript is sent.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	conversation-watson (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 0.8.21
Patched Version	0.8.21

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