CVE-2024-2956: Specialk Simple AJAX Chat – Add A Fast, Secure Chat Box

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Simple Ajax Chat – Add a Fast, Secure Chat Box plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 20231101 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

• Specialk Simple AJAX Chat – Add A Fast, Secure Chat Box: up to and including 20231101

Published 2024-03-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.