# CVE-2024-2972: Floating Chat Widget < 3.1.9 - Editor+ Stored XSS

> High-privilege users can inject malicious scripts via unsanitized settings in the Floating Chat Widget plugin, enabling stored XSS attacks.

- **Severity:** Low 3.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 24 Apr 2024
- **Updated:** 27 Mar 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-v2xc-vg4h-28jp

## What is CVE-2024-2972?

CVE-2024-2972 is a low-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Floating Chat Widget: Contact Chat Icons, WhatsApp, Telegram Chat, Line Messenger, WeChat, Email, SMS, Call Button , published on 24 Apr 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Floating Chat Widget: Contact Chat Icons, WhatsApp, Telegram Chat, Line Messenger, WeChat, Email, SMS, Call Button  WordPress plugin before 3.1.9 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-2972?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Premio Floating Chat Widget.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-2972?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-2972 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-2972 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-2972 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Floating Chat Widget: Contact Chat Icons, WhatsApp, Telegram Chat, Line Messenger, WeChat, Email, SMS, Call Button 

- [CVE-2025-1450](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1450/): Cross-site scripting in Floating Chat Widget: Contact Chat Icons, Telegram Chat, Line Messenger, WeChat, Email, SMS, Call Button – Chaty (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2024-4149](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-4149/): Floating Chat Widget < 3.2.3 - Admin+ Stored XSS (medium 6.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-2972 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-2972 is a low-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Floating Chat Widget: Contact Chat Icons, WhatsApp, Telegram Chat, Line Messenger, WeChat, Email, SMS, Call Button , published on 24 Apr 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-2972 exists.

Affected product: Unknown Floating Chat Widget: Contact Chat Icons, WhatsApp, Telegram Chat, Line Messenger, WeChat, Email, SMS, Call Button . 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-2024-2972/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-2972/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-2972
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-2972
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-2972

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-2972/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.