TI-2024-12653 Aliases CVE-2024-13612 GHSA-582h-7xj3-j2rp

Cross-site scripting in wordplus Better Messages – Live Chat, Chat Rooms, Real-Time…

LOW 28CWE-79Published 2025-02-01 · Updated 2026-04-08

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Cross-site scripting
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: Low · Low · None
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.

Summary

The Better Messages – Live Chat for WordPress, BuddyPress, PeepSo, Ultimate Member, BuddyBoss plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'better_messages_live_chat_button' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00308 23rd percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
wordplus	Better Messages – Live Chat, Chat Rooms, Real-Time Messaging & Private Messages	up to 2.6.9	—	No fix listed	CNA

Better Messages – Live Chat, Chat Rooms, Real-Time Messaging & Private Messages Vendorwordplus Affected up to 2.6.9 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:wordplus:better_messages::::::wordpress::*	before 2.7.0	Vulnerable	wordplus

cpe:2.3:a:wordplus:better_messages:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* Versions before 2.7.0 Vulnerable ·wordplus

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-13612
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-582h-7xj3-j2rp

References

Patch 1

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3228965/

Advisory 1

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/169a857f-1ae0-40f6-8a34-10c573af59c5?source=cve

Other 3

TI-2024-12652 Information disclosure in wordplus Better Messages – Live Chat, Chat Rooms, Real-Time… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
TI-2022-20012 WordPress Better Messages plugin <= 1.9.10.68 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
TI-2021-07091 BP Better Messages < 1.9.9.41 - Multiple CSRF CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
TI-2022-16728 WordPress Better Messages plugin <= 1.9.9.148 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
TI-2022-14581 WordPress Better Messages plugin <= 1.9.10.57 - Denial Of Service (DoS) vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.7
TI-2024-12736 Server-side request forgery in wordplus Better Messages – Live Chat, Chat Rooms… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5

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Sources

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