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GHSA-V28W-VH2W-263G

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-10-19 06:30 – Updated: 2023-12-22 21:30

Details

The AI ChatBot for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in versions up to, and including, 4.8.9 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

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-19 05:34 – Updated: 2025-06-12 15:03

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

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Assigner

Wordfence

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/chatbo…
	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_…
	http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/175371/WordP…

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	quantumcloud	AI ChatBot	Affected: * , ≤ 4.8.9 (semver) Affected: 4.9.1

Credits

Marco Wotschka

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Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-V28W-VH2W-263G

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

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