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CVE-2024-10531: Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress <= 2.1.7 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Assistant Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% 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 update_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 update 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#L524
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3183413/chatbot-chatgpt/trunk/includes/utilities/chatbot-assistants.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cc083470-3b43-42f3-8979-7fa6cce6ee75?source=cve

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