WPBot Pro Wordpress Chatbot <= 13.5.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 13.5.6
- Affected Plugin
- WPBot Pro Wordpress Chatbot
- Affected Version
<= 13.5.4- CVSS
- 9.8Critical
- Weakness type
- CWE-434 · Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
- CVE
CVE-2024-13091
At a glance
CVE-2024-13091 is a critical-severity Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type vulnerability in the WPBot Pro Wordpress Chatbot WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 13.5.4. It carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 13.5.6; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2025, reported by István Márton.
Vulnerability Overview
The WPBot Pro Wordpress Chatbot plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to missing file type validation in the 'qcld_wpcfb_file_upload' function in all versions up to, and including, 13.5.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible. Note: The exploit requires thee ChatBot Conversational Forms plugin and the Conversational Form Builder Pro addon plugin.
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, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-434: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
WPBot Pro Wordpress Chatbot <= 13.5.4 carries this weakness at qcld_wpcfb_file_upload, and reaching it takes no account at all. An unrestricted file upload lets a caller store a file whose type or destination the application does not properly constrain.
If an uploaded file lands anywhere the server will execute, the flaw becomes remote code execution and the site should be treated as fully compromised. For WPBot Pro Wordpress Chatbot the fix is 13.5.6: builds <= 13.5.4 are affected, anything from 13.5.6 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 13.5.6, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
Requests carrying this pattern arrive without a session, so nothing upstream of the firewall gets a chance to reject them: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. Classes like this one can leave something behind, so the staged malware scanner is the second half: it looks for dropped files and modified code rather than for the request that created them. None of that substitutes for the fix: WPBot Pro Wordpress Chatbot 13.5.6 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
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- Login Security
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