# CVE-2024-9628: WPS Telegram Chat <= 4.6.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Unauthorized Access to Telegram Bot API

> Authenticated subscribers can bypass authorization checks to access the Telegram Bot API, allowing unauthorized data modification and communication.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 25 Oct 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-rrr5-xgg4-xqq7

## What is CVE-2024-9628?

CVE-2024-9628 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in wpsolution WPS Telegram Chat, published on 25 Oct 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The WPS Telegram Chat plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data and loss of data due to a missing capability check on the 'Wps_Telegram_Chat_Admin::checkСonnection' function in versions up to, and including, 4.6.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to have full access to the Telegram Bot API endpoint and communicate with it.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-9628?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 10web Wps Telegram Chat.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-9628?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-9628 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-9628 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9628 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in wpsolution WPS Telegram Chat

- [CVE-2024-9630](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9630/): WPS Telegram Chat <= 4.6.0 - Missing Authorization to Information Exposure (medium 5.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-9628 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-9628 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in wpsolution WPS Telegram Chat, published on 25 Oct 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9628 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: wpsolution WPS Telegram Chat. 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-2024-9628/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9628/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-9628
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9628
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-9628

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9628/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.