# CVE-2023-2811: AI ChatBot < 4.5.6 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

> Admins can inject malicious scripts via unsanitized settings, affecting other admins and clients using the AI ChatBot plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 19 Jun 2023
- **Updated:** 11 Dec 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-44c7-92p2-r6w4

## What is CVE-2023-2811?

CVE-2023-2811 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown AI ChatBot, published on 19 Jun 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The AI ChatBot WordPress plugin before 4.5.6 does not sanitise and escape numerous of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks to all admin when setting chatbot and all client when using chatbot

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-2811?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Quantumcloud Wpbot.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-2811?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-2811 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-2811 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-2811 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown AI ChatBot

- [CVE-2023-5204](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5204/): AI ChatBot <= 4.8.9 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via qc_wpbo_search_response (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2023-1650](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-1650/): ChatBot < 4.4.7 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2023-5212](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5212/): Path traversal in WPBot – AI ChatBot for Live Support, Lead Generation, AI Services (critical 9.6)
- [CVE-2023-5241](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5241/): Path traversal in WPBot – AI ChatBot for Live Support, Lead Generation, AI Services (critical 9.6)
- [CVE-2024-22309](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-22309/): WordPress ChatBot Plugin <= 5.1.0 is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection (high 8.7)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-2811 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-2811 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown AI ChatBot, published on 19 Jun 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-2811 exists.

Affected product: Unknown AI ChatBot. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-2811/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-2811/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-2811
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2811
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-2811

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-2811/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.