CVE-2023-5241

HIGH EPSS 79.0%
Published Oct 19, 20232y ago · Modified Jun 17, 20262w ago
8.1 CVSS 3.1
High
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Published Oct 19, 2023 2y ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 2w ago

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.

CVSS Details

Base Score
8.1
Exploitability
2.8
Impact
5.2
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity High
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
79.0% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-22 Path Traversal Resource Mgmt

Affected Products 2

VendorProductVersionRange
quantumcloudwpbot* <4.9.1
quantumcloudwpbot4.9.2any

References 4

  • packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/175371/WordPress-AI-ChatBot-4.8.9-SQL-Injection-Traversal-File-Deletion.html
    Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
  • plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/chatbot/trunk/includes/openai/qcld-bot-openai.php#L376
    Product
  • plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2977505%40chatbot%2Ftrunk&old=2967435%40chatbot%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
    Patch
  • wordfence.com https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/25199281-5286-4d75-8d27-26ce215e0993?source=cve
    Third Party Advisory

Remediation

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