VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-5241

CVSS score9.6 CRITICAL
EPSS probability2.55%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-10-19
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

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 classification

  • security@wordfence.com: CWE-22
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-22

Primary references