CVE-2023-5241

CRITICAL

WPBot AI ChatBot <=4.8.9,4.9.2 - Authenticated Directory Traversal

Title source: llm

Description

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.

References (4)

Core 4

Core References

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

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

Product

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/chatbot/trunk/includes/openai/qcld-bot-openai.php#L376

Patch

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2977505%40chatbot%2Ftrunk&old=2967435%40chatbot%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Third Party Advisory

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/25199281-5286-4d75-8d27-26ce215e0993?source=cve

Scores

CVSS v3 9.6

EPSS 0.0207

EPSS Percentile 79.0%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-22

Status published

Products (4)

quantumcloud/wpbot 4.9.2

quantumcloud/wpbot < 4.9.1

quantumcloud/WPBot – AI ChatBot for Live Support, Lead Generation, AI Services < 4.8.9

quantumcloud/WPBot – AI ChatBot for Live Support, Lead Generation, AI Services 4.9.2

Published Oct 19, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026