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CVE-2024-13612: Better Messages – Live Chat for WordPress, BuddyPress, PeepSo, Ultimate Member, BuddyBoss <= 2.6.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 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: 2025-02-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Better Messages – Live Chat for WordPress, BuddyPress, PeepSo, Ultimate Member, BuddyBoss plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'better_messages_live_chat_button' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• wordplus Better Messages – Live Chat, Chat Rooms, Real-Time Messaging & Private Messages: before 2.7.0 — fixed in 2.7.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: wordplus Better Messages – Live Chat, Chat Rooms, Real-Time Messaging & Private Messages 2.7.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/trunk/inc/shortcodes.php#L125
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/trunk/inc/shortcodes.php#L127
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/trunk/inc/shortcodes.php#L84
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3228965/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/169a857f-1ae0-40f6-8a34-10c573af59c5?source=cve

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