vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: chaty: CVE-2025-1450: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Feb 26, 2025
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Floating Chat Widget: Contact Chat Icons, Telegram Chat, Line Messenger, WeChat, Email, SMS, Call Button, WhatsApp – Chaty plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘data-hover’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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.

Solution

chaty-plugin-cve-2025-1450
Title
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