CVE-2023-5241 Path traversal in WPBot – AI ChatBot for Live Support, Lead Generation, AI Services

What is CVE-2023-5241?

CVE-2023-5241 is a critical path traversal vulnerability in quantumcloud WPBot – AI ChatBot for Live Support, Lead Generation, AI Services, published on 19 Oct 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-5241?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Quantumcloud Wpbot.

How do I fix CVE-2023-5241?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-5241 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2023-5241 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-5241 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in quantumcloud WPBot – AI ChatBot for Live Support, Lead Generation, AI Services

• CVE-2023-5204 AI ChatBot <= 4.8.9 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via qc_wpbo_search_response Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-1650 ChatBot < 4.4.7 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-5212 Path traversal in WPBot – AI ChatBot for Live Support, Lead Generation, AI Services Critical 9.6
• CVE-2024-22309 WordPress ChatBot Plugin <= 5.1.0 is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection High 8.7
• CVE-2023-48741 WordPress ChatBot Plugin <= 4.7.8 is vulnerable to SQL Injection High 7.6

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as CVE-2023-5646, GHSA-v28w-vh2w-263g.