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CVE-2024-12879: WPBot Pro Wordpress Chatbot <= 13.5.5 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Simple Text Response Creation

• 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: 2025-01-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The WPBot Pro Wordpress Chatbot plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'qc_wp_latest_update_check_pro' function in all versions up to, and including, 13.5.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create Simple Text Responses to chat queries.

Affected products

• quantumcloud Wpot: before 13.5.6 — fixed in 13.5.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: quantumcloud Wpot 13.5.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/91427e3e-fedb-407e-8af6-8f4411a4166a?source=cve
• https://www.wpbot.pro/

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