CVE-2024-13611

Better Messages – Live Chat for WordPress, BuddyPress, PeepSo, Ultimate Member, BuddyBoss <= 2.6.9 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure Through Unprotected Directory

2025-02-28 19:31

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 2.7.0
Affected Plugin: Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots
Affected Version: <= 2.6.9
CVSS: 7.5High
Weakness type: CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE: CVE-2024-13611

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At a glance

CVE-2024-13611 is a high-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the Better Messages WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.6.9. It carries a CVSS score of 7.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.7.0; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2025, reported by Tim Coen.

Vulnerability Overview

The Better Messages – Live Chat for WordPress, BuddyPress, PeepSo, Ultimate Member, BuddyBoss plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.9 via the 'bp-better-messages' directory. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data stored insecurely in the /wp-content/uploads/bp-better-messages directory which can contain file attachments included in chat messages.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality.

CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Better Messages <= 2.6.9 carries this weakness at bp-better-messages, and reaching it takes no account at all. Sensitive information exposure means data the application intended to keep internal is returned to a caller who should not be able to see it.

The disclosed data — credentials, tokens, customer records or internal paths — is usually worth more as material for a follow-up attack than as an end in itself. For Better Messages the fix is 2.7.0: builds <= 2.6.9 are affected, anything from 2.7.0 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.7.0, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: Better Messages 2.7.0 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-13611 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/997918b9-2ccd-413e-9df2-d24bc3820ba1 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13611

Related records

Other vulnerabilities in Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots

CVSS Vector

7.5

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityNone

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