Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress <= 2.1.7 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Assistant Deletion

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-10529
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published November 12, 2024
Last Updated November 13, 2024
Researcher Tieu Pham Trong Nhan
Description

The Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the delete_assistant() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to delete GTP assistants.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug chatbot-chatgpt (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.1.7
Patched Version
  • 2.1.8
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