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Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots <= 2.14.16 — Unauthenticated Insecure Direct Object Reference

CVE-2026-42736Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2.14.16Update to 2.15.0 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium5.3
CVSS
5.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/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:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots bp-better-messages

  1. Affected≤ 2.14.16
  2. Patched in2.15.0

Update to 2.15.0 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.14.16. Version 2.15.0 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots.
  • 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 2.15.0, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to dodoh4t.

The Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.14.16 due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform an unauthorized action.

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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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.4Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤3.2.1Update to 3.2.2
CVE-2026-124257
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤3.1.3Update to 3.1.4
CVE-2026-114179
Medium6.4Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via User Display Name
≤3.0.4Update to 3.0.5
CVE-2026-94376
Medium6.5Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection via 'group_id' Message Meta Parameter
≤3.0.4Update to 3.0.5
CVE-2026-93899
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Information Exposure Spoofing via 'X-Real-IP' Header via /guests/register
≤2.15.33Update to 3.0.0
CVE-2026-89093

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 5.3

  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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