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CVE-2024-2956: Simple Ajax Chat <= 20231101 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 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: 2024-03-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Simple Ajax Chat – Add a Fast, Secure Chat Box plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 20231101 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

Affected products

• specialk Simple Ajax Chat – Add a Fast, Secure Chat Box: through 20231101

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3037001%40simple-ajax-chat&new=3037001%40simple-ajax-chat&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9e9e0214-b88e-4125-8c10-850ca736e920?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3037001%40simple-ajax-chat&new=3037001%40simple-ajax-chat&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9e9e0214-b88e-4125-8c10-850ca736e920?source=cve

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