CVE-2023-5254
AI ChatBot <= 4.8.9 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure via qcld_wb_chatbot_check_user
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The ChatBot plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions up to, and including, 4.8.9 via the qcld_wb_chatbot_check_user function. This can allow unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including confirmation as to whether a user name exists on the site as well as order information for existing users.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 21 days later
· 21 days later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.94% · top 39% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Weakness
Affected products
References (3)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d897daf8-5320-4546-9a63-1d34a15b2a58?source=cve (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/chatbot/trunk/functions.php#L1224 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2977505%40chatbot%2Ftrunk&old=2967435%40chatbot%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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