CVE-2024-1983

Simple Ajax Chat <= 20240216 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

highImproper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

7.2

CVSS Score

7.2

CVSS Score

high

Severity

20240223

Patched in

702d

Time to patch

Description

The Simple Ajax Chat – Add a Fast, Secure Chat Box plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the name field in all versions up to, and including, 20240216 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attacker to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Low

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions<=20240216

PublishedMarch 26, 2024

Last updatedFebruary 25, 2026

Affected pluginsimple-ajax-chat

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f67b5cd8-bae8-48ca-87d5-7445724791f6?source=api-prod

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