Vulnerability · Published Sep 25, 2024 · Assigned by WPScan

CVE-2024-6845SmartSearchWP < 2.4.6 - Unauthenticated OpenAI Key Disclosure

Medium 5.3

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Chatbot with ChatGPT WordPress from Unknown. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.1% (higher than 66% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Nuclei.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)1.1%top 34.1% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc

Attack tooling1Nuclei

Official description

The Chatbot with ChatGPT WordPress plugin before 2.4.6 does not have proper authorization in one of its REST endpoint, allowing unauthenticated users to retrieve the encoded key and then decode it, thereby leaking the OpenAI API key

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	Chatbot with ChatGPT WordPress	0 – before 2.4.6

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/cfaaa843-d89e-42d4-90d9-988293499d26/ exploit, vdb-entry, technical-description