CVE-2025-11256 (GCVE-0-2025-11256)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-18 07:26 – Updated: 2026-04-08 16:40
VLAI
Title
Kognetiks Chatbot <= 2.3.5 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Limited File Uploads and Conversation Erasing
Summary
The Kognetiks Chatbot plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on several functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.5. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload limited safe files and erase conversations.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
kognetiks Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.3.5 (semver)
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Credits
Jonas Benjamin Friedli
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