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CVE-2023-5241

Published: Oct 19, 2023

Modified: Apr 8, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

9.6

CRITICAL

Description

The AI ChatBot for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in versions up to, and including, 4.8.9 as well as 4.9.2 via the qcld_openai_upload_pagetraining_file function. This allows subscriber-level attackers to append "<?php" to any existing file on the server resulting in potential DoS when appended to critical files such as wp-config.php.

VendorProductVersions

quantumcloud

WPBot – AI ChatBot for Live Support, Lead Generation, AI Services

affected
0 - <= 4.8.9
affected
4.9.2

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-22

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

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