CVE-2021-24914

HIGH

Tawk.To Live Chat WordPress Plugin < 0.6.0 - Authenticated Missing Authorization via AJAX Actions

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The Tawk.To Live Chat WordPress plugin before 0.6.0 does not have capability and CSRF checks in the tawkto_setwidget and tawkto_removewidget AJAX actions, available to any authenticated user. The first one allows low-privileged users (including simple subscribers) to change the 'tawkto-embed-widget-page-id' and 'tawkto-embed-widget-widget-id' parameters. Any authenticated user can thus link the vulnerable website to their own Tawk.to instance. Consequently, they will be able to monitor the vulnerable website and interact with its visitors (receive contact messages, answer, ...). They will also be able to display an arbitrary Knowledge Base. The second one will remove the live chat widget from pages.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/39392055-8cd3-452f-8bcb-a650f5bddc2e

Scores

CVSS v3 8.0
EPSS 0.0052
EPSS Percentile 40.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-352 CWE-862
Status published
Products (1)
tawk/tawk.to_live_chat < 0.6.0
Published Dec 06, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026