wupsales AI Chatbot & Workflow Automation by AIWU Plugin up to 1.4.14 on WordPress Header X-Forwarded-For cross site scripting

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in wupsales AI Chatbot & Workflow Automation by AIWU Plugin up to 1.4.14 on WordPress. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Header Handler. Performing a manipulation of the argument X-Forwarded-For results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-2955. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in wupsales AI Chatbot & Workflow Automation by AIWU Plugin up to 1.4.14 on WordPress. This affects an unknown functionality of the component Header Handler. The manipulation of the argument X-Forwarded-For with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The AI Chatbot & Workflow Automation by AIWU plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'X-Forwarded-For' header in versions up to, and including, 1.4.14 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. NOTE: Practical exploitation is constrained due to a 20-character storage limit.

The weakness was disclosed by Kazuma Matsumoto. It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-2955 since 02/21/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-31064). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Automation Software

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• wupsales

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• AI Chatbot & Workflow Automation by AIWU Plugin

Version

• 1.4.0
• 1.4.1
• 1.4.2
• 1.4.3
• 1.4.4
• 1.4.5
• 1.4.6
• 1.4.7
• 1.4.8
• 1.4.9
• 1.4.10
• 1.4.11
• 1.4.12
• 1.4.13
• 1.4.14

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