JivoChat Live Chat – WP live chat plugin for WordPress <= 1.3.5.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Cross-Site Scripting

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2022-0642
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published May 9, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Muhamad Hidayat
Description

The JivoChat Live Chat WordPress plugin before 1.3.5.4 does not properly check CSRF tokens on POST requests to the plugins admin page, and does not sanitise some parameters, leading to a stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability where an attacker can trick a logged in administrator to inject arbitrary javascript.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug jivochat (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.3.5.3
Patched Version
  • 1.3.5.4
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