Hive Support <= 1.2.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via hs_update_ai_chat_settings Function

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2025-5019
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published June 5, 2025
Last Updated July 25, 2025
Researcher Vo Thi Ngoc Nhi
Description

The Hive Support | AI-Powered Help Desk, Live Chat & AI Chat Bot Plugin for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.5. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the hs_update_ai_chat_settings() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reconfigure the plugin’s AI/chat settings (including API keys) and to potentially redirect notifications or leak data to attacker-controlled endpoints via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug hive-support (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2.5
Patched Version
  • 1.2.6
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