Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress <= 2.1.7 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Assistant Deletion

5.3
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-10529
CVSS 5.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published November 12, 2024
Last Updated November 13, 2024
Researcher Tieu Pham Trong Nhan - TechlabCorp

Description

The Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the delete_assistant() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to delete GTP assistants.

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Vulnerability Details for Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug chatbot-chatgpt (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.1.8, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 2.1.7
Patched Version
  • 2.1.8

Recent vulnerabilities in Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Kognetiks Chatbot <= 2.3.5 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Limited File Uploads and Conversation Erasing CVE-2025-11256 5.3 Jonas Benjamin Friedli October 17, 2025
2 Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress <= 2.1.7 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-10684 6.1 Le Ngoc Anh November 12, 2024
3 Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress <= 2.1.7 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Assistant Addition CVE-2024-10530 4.3 Tieu Pham Trong Nhan November 12, 2024
4 Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress <= 2.1.7 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Assistant Update CVE-2024-10531 5.3 Tieu Pham Trong Nhan November 12, 2024
5 Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress <= 2.1.8 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Assistant Modification CVE-2024-11143 4.3 Tieu Pham Trong Nhan November 12, 2024
6 Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress <= 1.9.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-35738 6.4 LVT-tholv2k June 6, 2024
7 Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress <= 2.0.0 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload CVE-2024-32700 10.0 LVT-tholv2k May 13, 2024
8 Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress <= 1.9.9 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via chatbot_chatgpt_upload_file_to_assistant Function CVE-2024-4560 9.8 Francesco Carlucci May 10, 2024

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