CVE-2023-5691: Collect.chat Chatbot

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Collect.chat Chatbot: up to and including 2.3.9

Published 2024-01-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.