CVE-2024-11143

Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress <= 2.1.8 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Assistant Modification

2024-11-12 00:00
Tieu Pham Trong Nhan

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 2.1.9
Affected Plugin
Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress
Affected Version
<= 2.1.8
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2024-11143
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At a glance

CVE-2024-11143 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.1.8. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.1.9; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed November 2024, reported by Tieu Pham Trong Nhan.

Vulnerability Overview

The Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.8. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the update_assistant, add_new_assistant, and delete_assistant functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify assistants via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

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.

CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Reaching this weakness in Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress <= 2.1.8 takes an account at Subscriber level or above. Cross-site request forgery abuses the fact that browsers attach a victim's cookies to any request, so a state-changing action that only checks who you are, not whether you meant to act, can be triggered from another site.

An attacker who gets a logged-in user to load a crafted page can perform that action as them, with the impact scaling to whatever the victim's role is allowed to do. For Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress the fix is 2.1.9: builds <= 2.1.8 are affected, anything from 2.1.9 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.1.9, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

An attacker needs Subscriber access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress 2.1.9 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-11143https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f16b11b0-11df-4fb7-a6af-123f6c09d791https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11143

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