🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2024-13612

MEDIUM 6.4

Better Messages – Live Chat for WordPress, BuddyPress, PeepSo, Ultimate Member, BuddyBoss <= 2.6.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

CVSS Score
6.4
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

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.

CWE CWE-79
Vendor wordplus
Product better messages – live chat, chat rooms, real-time messaging & private messages
Published Feb 1, 2025
Last Updated Apr 8, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

wordplus / Better Messages – Live Chat, Chat Rooms, Real-Time Messaging & Private Messages
0 ≤ 2.6.9

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/169a857f-1ae0-40f6-8a34-10c573af59c5?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/trunk/inc/shortcodes.php#L84 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/trunk/inc/shortcodes.php#L125 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/trunk/inc/shortcodes.php#L127 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3228965/

Credits

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