Acobot Live Chat & Contact Form: Cross-site scripting

Acobot Live Chat & Contact Form is affected by cross-site scripting. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.

CVE / CNA score 6.8 CVSS · cve@mitre.org

NVD score 6.8 CVSS 2.0 · nvd@nist.gov

Component: Acobot Live Chat & Contact Form
Plugin slug: acobot-live-chat-&-contact-form
Affected: See vendor advisory
Safe version: See mitigation notes
Published: Feb 20, 2015
Weakness: CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

This CVE was published Feb 20, 2015 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update Acobot Live Chat & Contact Form to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.

Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.

Source record

Technical description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Acobot Live Chat & Contact Form plugin 2.0 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) change plugin settings or (2) conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the acobot_token parameter in the acobot page to wp-admin/options-general.php.

NVD vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Update, patch or deactivate.

Technical description

Primary and upstream sources