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Chatbot with ChatGPT <= 2.4.5 — Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated OpenAI API Key Exposure

CVE-2024-6845Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2.4.5Update to 2.4.6 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium5.8
CVSS
5.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:N Integrity
None
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-862 Missing Authorization
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

AI Chatbot & Semantic Search: ChatGPT Answers From Your Content smartsearchwp

  1. Affected≤ 2.4.5
  2. Patched in2.4.6

Update to 2.4.6 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.4.5. Version 2.4.6 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under AI Chatbot & Semantic Search: ChatGPT Answers From Your Content.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.4.6, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch AI Chatbot & Semantic Search: ChatGPT Answers From Your Content to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Kieran Burge.

The Chatbot with ChatGPT WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the wdgpt_retrieve_api_key() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.5. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve an OpenAI key.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 5.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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