Medium severity4.4NVD Advisory· Published Jan 11, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2023-5691
CVE-2023-5691
Description
The Chatbot for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in version 2.3.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.
Affected products
3- Range: <2.3.9
- collectchat/Collect.chat Chatbot ⚡️v5Range: 2.3.9
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvdPatch
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dfd67329-11b1-4f00-a422-bb4833a3181dnvdProductThird Party Advisory
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