CVE-2019-12498 is a critical vulnerability affecting the WP Live Chat Support plugin for WordPress, specifically versions prior to 8.0.33, including the 3cx live_chat product. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to bypass security checks in the REST API, leading to severe impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity landscape.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 8.0.33CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:3cx:live_chat:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.