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CVE-2024-11143: Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress <= 2.1.8 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Assistant Modification

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% 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-352

Description

The Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.8. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the update_assistant, add_new_assistant, and delete_assistant functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify assistants via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress: before 2.1.9 — fixed in 2.1.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress 2.1.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3185255/chatbot-chatgpt/trunk/includes/utilities/chatbot-assistants.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f16b11b0-11df-4fb7-a6af-123f6c09d791?source=cve

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