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WordPress Plugin: conversation-watson: CVE-2020-7239: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 21, 2020
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Chatbot with IBM Watson plugin before 0.8.21 for WordPress has a DOM-based XSS vulnerability that is executed when a chat message containing JavaScript is sent.

Solution

conversation-watson-plugin-cve-2020-7239
Title
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