Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Chatroll Live Chat Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2024-12464

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Chatroll Live Chat
Vendor
CVE Published:
7 January 2025

Summary

The Chatroll Live Chat plugin for WordPress has a vulnerability that allows authenticated users with contributor-level access to inject malicious web scripts via the 'chatroll' shortcode. This occurs due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes, leading to the execution of scripts when a user accesses the compromised page. All versions of the plugin up to and including 2.5.0 are affected, posing significant security risks to WordPress installations.

Affected Version(s)

Chatroll Live Chat * <= 2.5.0

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/chatroll-live-...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Peter Thaleikis
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