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CVE-2024-10530: Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress <= 2.1.7 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Assistant Addition

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-11-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the add_new_assistant() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to create new GTP assistants.

Affected products

• Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress: before 2.1.8 — fixed in 2.1.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress 2.1.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/chatbot-chatgpt/trunk/includes/utilities/chatbot-assistants.php#L596
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3183413/chatbot-chatgpt/trunk/includes/utilities/chatbot-assistants.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a4fd7e76-4d8b-4e4d-9ae9-c7f9933f8324?source=cve

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