Acobot Live Chat & Contact Form <= 2.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery and Cross-Site Scripting

6.1
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2015-2039
CVSS 6.1 (Medium)
Publicly Published January 26, 2015
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researchers Kenneth Jepsen
Mikkel Vej
Morten Nortoft

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Acobot Live Chat & Contact Form plugin 2.0 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) change plugin settings or (2) conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the acobot_token parameter in the acobot page to wp-admin/options-general.php.

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Vulnerability Details for acobot

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug acobot (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Remediation No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0

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