Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Pure Chat Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2024-13736

6.1MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Pure-chat
Status
Pure Chat – Live Chat & More!
Vendor
CVE Published:
19 February 2025

Summary

The Pure Chat – Live Chat & More! plugin for WordPress contains a vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to exploit the ‘purechatWidgetName’ parameter. This occurs due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping, enabling the injection of arbitrary web scripts into affected pages. When users access these compromised pages, malicious scripts can execute, potentially leading to data theft or site compromise.

Affected Version(s)

Pure Chat – Live Chat & More! * <= 2.31

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://wordpress.org/plugins/pure-chat/#developers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pure-chat/trun...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.1
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Rein Daelman
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