Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-6843

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 19 August 2024

Published
19 August 2024
Modified
27 May 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0180 83.2th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-6843 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Webdigit Chatbot With Chatgpt. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 16.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as Enterprise AI Assistants; in the Other ATLAS/OWASP Terms risk domain.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The Chatbot with ChatGPT WordPress plugin before 2.4.5 does not sanitise and escape user inputs, which could allow unauthenticated users to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks against admins

CWE(s)
CWE-79

AI Security AnalysisAI

AI Category
Enterprise AI Assistants
Risk Domain
Other ATLAS/OWASP Terms
OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025
None mapped
Classification Reason
The vulnerability affects a WordPress plugin ('Chatbot with ChatGPT' or 'SmartSearch WP') that integrates ChatGPT (an LLM-based AI assistant) via OpenAI API, providing chatbot functionality on websites, fitting the Enterprise AI Assistants category as it deploys AI assistant capabilities in a web/enterprise context.

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1059.007 JavaScript Execution
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
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Why these techniques?

The unauthenticated Stored XSS vulnerability enables exploitation of a public-facing WordPress application (T1190) and facilitates arbitrary JavaScript execution (T1059.007) in the browser context of administrators when viewing the affected error logs page.

Affected Assets

webdigit
chatbot with chatgpt
≤ 2.4.5

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

CA-8 Penetration Testing
addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering
addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

References