CVE-2023-5241 (GCVE-0-2023-5241)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-19 05:34 – Updated: 2025-06-12 15:03
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
9.6 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
quantumcloud AI ChatBot Affected: * , ≤ 4.8.9 (semver)
Affected: 4.9.1
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Credits
Marco Wotschka
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