CVE-2023-5241
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-10-19 05:34
Modified
2025-06-12 15:03
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| ▼ | Vendor | Product |
|---|---|---|
| quantumcloud | AI ChatBot |
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