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CVE-2024-5993: Cliengo - Chatbot <= 3.0.2 - Missing Authorization to Authorized (Subscriber+) Chatbot Settings Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 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: 2024-07-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Cliengo – Chatbot plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'update_session' function in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update the session token of the chatbot.

Affected products

• Cliengo – Chatbot: through 3.0.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3118688/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0a13e87d-51cd-43b0-a658-900a174738fc?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cliengo/trunk/admin/class-cliengo-form.php#L109
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0a13e87d-51cd-43b0-a658-900a174738fc?source=cve

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