WPBot Pro Wordpress Chatbot <= 13.5.5 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Simple Text Response Creation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-12879
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published January 21, 2025
Last Updated January 22, 2025
Researcher BrokenAC ignore
Description

The WPBot Pro Wordpress Chatbot plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'qc_wp_latest_update_check_pro' function in all versions up to, and including, 13.5.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create Simple Text Responses to chat queries.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wpbot-pro (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 13.5.5
Patched Version
  • 13.5.6
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