CVE-2024-13736
Pure Chat – Live Chat & More! <= 2.4 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via purechatWidgetName Parameter
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.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
6.1
Pure Chat – Live Chat & More! <= 2.4 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via purechatWidgetName Parameter
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.
- Record
CVE-2024-13736- CVSS 3.1
- 6.1 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2025-4723
6.1
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.
- Record
EUVD-2025-4723- CVSS 3.1
- 6.1 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-7ch8-4hvj-r54q
6.1
The Pure Chat – Live Chat & More! plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site...
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, 2.31 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.
- Record
GHSA-7ch8-4hvj-r54q- CVSS 3.1
- 6.1 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
6.1
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.
- Record
CVE-2024-13736- CVSS 3.1
- 6.1 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2024-13736 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) in Pure-chat Pure Chat – Live Chat & More!, published February 19, 2025. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.47%, the 40th percentile. No source names a fixed version.
References
wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e11993c1-48fa-4e37-850d-d02e3e20d56f?source=cve
wordpress.org/plugins/pure-chat
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pure-chat/trunk/purechat.php
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3245968%40pure-chat&new=3245968%40pure-chat&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3243536%40pure-chat&new=3243536%40pure-chat&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13736
github.com/advisories/GHSA-7ch8-4hvj-r54q