Simple Ajax Chat – Add a Fast, Secure Chat Box, CVE-2024-2956

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-2956
Home page URL: Security reports for Simple Ajax Chat – Add a Fast, Secure Chat Box
Application: Simple Ajax Chat – Add a Fast, Secure Chat Box
Published on: Mar 27, 2024
Research 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 versions: max 20240216.
Status: vulnerable