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CVE-2023-5241

CRITICAL
Published 2023-10-19T05:34:10.565Z
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CVSS Score

V3.1
9.6
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.024
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 2.4% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.845
Higher than 84.5% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
Not Available
Attack Complexity
Not Available
Privileges Required
Not Available
User Interaction
Not Available
Scope
Not Available

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
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Integrity
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Availability
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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.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

Related News

No news articles found for this CVE.

Affected Products

quantumcloud

AI ChatBot

Affected Versions:

* 4.9.1

WordPress Vulnerability

Identified and analyzed by Wordfence

Software Type

Plugin

Patch Status

Patched

Published

October 11, 2023

Software Details

Software Name

AI ChatBot for WordPress – WPBot

Software Slug

chatbot

Affected Versions

4.9.2 * - 4.8.9

Patched Versions

4.9.1 4.9.3

Remediation

Update to one of the following versions, or a newer patched version: 4.9.1, 4.9.3

References

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

© Defiant Inc. Data provided by Wordfence.

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

⚠ Unreviewed HIGH

GHSA-v28w-vh2w-263g

Advisory 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.

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

7.5

CVSS Vector

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

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5241
WEB https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/chatbot/trunk/includes/openai/qcld-bot-openai.php#L376
WEB https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2977505%40chatbot%2Ftrunk&old=2967435%40chatbot%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
WEB https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/25199281-5286-4d75-8d27-26ce215e0993?source=cve
WEB http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/175371/WordPress-AI-ChatBot-4.8.9-SQL-Injection-Traversal-File-Deletion.html

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: October 19, 2023, Modified: December 22, 2023

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/25199281-5286-4d75-8d27-26ce215e0993?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/chatbot/trunk/includes/openai/qcld-bot-openai.php#L376
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2977505%40chatbot%2Ftrunk&old=2967435%40chatbot%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/175371/WordPress-AI-ChatBot-4.8.9-SQL-Injection-Traversal-File-Deletion.html
Published: 2023-10-19T05:34:10.565Z
Last Modified: 2025-06-12T15:03:58.487Z
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