WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Social Chat < 8.6.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'consent_message' JSON Attribute in .qlwapp data-box

Description

The Social Chat – Click To Chat App Button plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'consent_message' JSON Attribute in .qlwapp data-box in all versions up to, and including, 8.6.2 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. The exploit requires no user interaction beyond page load, as setting auto_open and consent_enabled to 'yes' in the injected data-box JSON causes the consent box — and the embedded script — to execute immediately on page load.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 8.6.3

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
suyoung kim(AhnLab)
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-09-04 (about 1 month ago)
Added
2026-09-04 (about 1 month ago)
Last Updated
2026-09-05 (about 1 month ago)

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