CVE-2025-5019

Hive Support <= 1.2.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via hs_update_ai_chat_settings Function

2025-06-05 17:48
Vo Thi Ngoc Nhi

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.2.6
Affected Plugin
Hive Support | AI-Powered Help Desk, Live Chat and Chatbot
Affected Version
<= 1.2.5
CVSS
5.4Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2025-5019
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At a glance

CVE-2025-5019 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Hive Support WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.2.5. It carries a CVSS score of 5.4 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.2.6; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed June 2025, reported by Vo Thi Ngoc Nhi.

Vulnerability Overview

The Hive Support | AI-Powered Help Desk, Live Chat & AI Chat Bot Plugin for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.5. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the hs_update_ai_chat_settings() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reconfigure the plugin’s AI/chat settings (including API keys) and to potentially redirect notifications or leak data to attacker-controlled endpoints 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)

Hive Support <= 1.2.5 carries this weakness at hs_update_ai_chat_settings(), and reaching it takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. 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 Hive Support the fix is 1.2.6: builds <= 1.2.5 are affected, anything from 1.2.6 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.2.6, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Hive Support: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Hive Support 1.2.6 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5019https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/50542e5e-da66-4223-a6bf-dc9381687dddhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5019

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