AI ChatBot for WooCommerce – WoowBot < 4.8.4 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated AI API Key Abuse
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 4.8.4
- Affected Plugin
- AI ChatBot for WooCommerce – WoowBot
- Affected Version
< 4.8.4- CVSS
- 5.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2026-15241
At a glance
CVE-2026-15241 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the AI ChatBot for WooCommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 4.8.4. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 4.8.4; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed August 2026, reported by Pedro Pinho.
Vulnerability Overview
The AI ChatBot for WooCommerce – WoowBot plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to AI API Key abuse in all versions up to 4.8.4 (exclusive). This is due to a missing capability check on the qcld_gemini_response AJAX action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to trigger content generation which will bill an API key associated with the site.
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.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Reaching this weakness in AI ChatBot for WooCommerce < 4.8.4 takes no account at all. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.
Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For AI ChatBot for WooCommerce the fix is 4.8.4: builds < 4.8.4 are affected, anything from 4.8.4 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 4.8.4, 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: AI ChatBot for WooCommerce 4.8.4 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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