On September 28, 2023, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the responsible disclosure process for multiple vulnerabilities in AI ChatBot, a WordPress plugin with over 4,000 active installations.
After making their initial contact attempt on September 28th, 2023, they received a response on September 29, 2023 and sent over their full disclosure details. Receipt of the disclosure by the vendor was acknowledged the same day and a fully patched version of the plugin was released on October 19, 2023.
Wordfence issued a firewall rule to protect paid customers. Users of the free Wordfence plugin will receive the same protection on October 29, 2023.
Please note that these vulnerabilities were originally fixed in 4.9.1 (released October 10, 2023). However, some of them were reintroduced in 4.9.2 and then subsequently patched again in 4.9.3. We recommend that all Wordfence users update to version 4.9.3 or higher immediately.
Source and full details: https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2023/10/several-critical-vulnerabilities-patched-in-ai-chatbot-plugin-for-wordpress