CVE-2025-11576
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The AI Chatbot Free Models – Customer Support, Live Chat, Virtual Assistant plugin for WordPress (CVE-2025-11576) contains a CSV Injection vulnerability affecting all versions up to and including 1.6.5. The vulnerability was discovered by Jonas Benjamin Friedli and was publicly disclosed on October 23, 2025 (Wordfence).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from insufficient sanitization in the 'newcodebytechatbotexport_messages' function. The issue has been classified as CWE-1236 (Improper Neutralization of Formula Elements in a CSV File). The vulnerability has received a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 4.3 (Medium) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N (NVD).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to embed untrusted input into exported CSV files. The primary risk occurs when these files are downloaded and opened on a local system with a vulnerable configuration, potentially resulting in code execution (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

A fix has been implemented and can be found in the WordPress plugin repository (WordPress Changes). Users are advised to update their AI Chatbot Free Models plugin to a version newer than 1.6.5.

Additional resources


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