Pure Chat – Live Chat & More! <= 2.4 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via purechatWidgetName Parameter
Priority LOW 28CWE-79Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- 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 Pure Chat – Live Chat & More! plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘purechatWidgetName’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers 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 0.00469 40th 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
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-13736
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-7ch8-4hvj-r54q
References
Other 5
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/pure-chat/#developers
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pure-chat/trunk/purechat.php#L149
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pure-chat/trunk/purechat.php#L99
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3245968%40pure-chat&new=3245968%40pure-chat&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3243536%40pure-chat&new=3243536%40pure-chat&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
More pure-chat Pure Chat vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-23542 WordPress Pure Chat plugin <= 2.22 - Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.3
Sources
- CVE-2024-13736 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-13736 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-7ch8-4hvj-r54q · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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