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WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES Standard & Premium

WordPress Plugin AI ChatBot Arbitrary File Deletion (4.9.2)

Description

WordPress Plugin AI ChatBot is prone to a vulnerability that lets attackers delete arbitrary files because the application fails to properly verify user-supplied input. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to delete arbitrary files in the context of the webserver process. WordPress Plugin AI ChatBot versions up to, and including, 4.8.9 and version 4.9.2 are vulnerable.

Remediation

Update to plugin versions 4.9.1, 4.9.3 or latest

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/wordpress-plugins/chatbot/ai-chatbot-489-authenticated-subscriber-arbitrary-file-deletion-via-qcld-openai-delete-training-file

https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/175371/WordPress-AI-ChatBot-4.8.9-SQL-Injection-Traversal-File-Deletion.html

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/chatbot/trunk/readme.txt

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2023-5212 CWE-73 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update

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