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Paper/Archive/CVE-2023-5241

CVE-2023-5241

quantumcloud WPBot – AI ChatBot for Live Support, Lead Generation, AI Services — AI ChatBot <= 4.8.9 and 4.9.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Directory Traversal to Arbitrary File Write via qcld_openai_upload_pagetraining_file

EPSS 3%CVSS 9.6
critical.is priorityof 100
46
CVSS 9.6 (CNA)9.6 / 10 × 3028.8Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 85.0.850 × 2017.0No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: none+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

The AI ChatBot for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in versions up to, and including, 4.8.9 as well as 4.9.2 via the qcld_openai_upload_pagetraining_file function. This allows subscriber-level attackers to append "<?php" to any existing file on the server resulting in potential DoS when appended to critical files such as wp-config.php.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
WPBot – AI ChatBot for Live Support, Lead Generation, AI Services≤ 4.8.9–CNA
WPBot – AI ChatBot for Live Support, Lead Generation, AI Services4.9.2–CNA

Scores by source

Wordfence (CNA)9.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

References

refwordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/25199281-5286-4d75-8d27-26ce215e0993?source=cverefplugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/chatbot/trunk/includes/openai/qcld-bot-openai.php#L376refplugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2977505%40chatbot%2Ftrunk&old=2967435%40chatbot%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=refpacketstormsecurity.com/files/175371/WordPress-AI-ChatBot-4.8.9-SQL-Injection-Traversal-File-Deletion.html