CVE-2018-11105 — There is stored cross site scripting in the wp-live-chat-support plugin before 8

There is stored cross site scripting in the wp-live-chat-support plugin before 8.0.08 for WordPress via the "name" (aka wplc_name) and "email" (aka wplc_email) input fields to wp-json/wp_live_chat_support/v1/start_chat whenever a malicious attacker would initi

01What is this vulnerability?

There is stored cross site scripting in the wp-live-chat-support plugin before 8.0.08 for WordPress via the "name" (aka wplc_name) and "email" (aka wplc_email) input fields to wp-json/wp_live_chat_support/v1/start_chat whenever a malicious attacker would initiate a new chat with an administrator. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-9864.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-05-15T15:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T07:54:36.557Z

09References

• wordpress.org — https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-live-chat-support/#developers
• github.com — https://github.com/RiieCco/write-ups/tree/master/CVE-2018-11105