CVE-2024-4560: Kognetiks Chatbot For WordPress

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to missing file type validation in the chatbot_chatgpt_upload_file_to_assistant function in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers, with to upload arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible.

Affected products

• Kognetiks Kognetiks Chatbot For WordPress: up to and including 1.9.9
• Kognetiks .com Kognetiks Chatbot: up to and including 1.9.9

Published 2024-05-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.