CVE-2021-24914

Tawk.to Live Chat < 0.6.0 - Subscriber+ Visitor Monitoring & Chat Removal

HIGH
8
CVSS Score
Published: December 6, 2021 at 03:55 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:41 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorTawk.to Live Chat

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Severity
HIGH8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%

Description

The Tawk.To Live Chat WordPress plugin before 0.6.0 does not have capability and CSRF checks in the tawkto_setwidget and tawkto_removewidget AJAX actions, available to any authenticated user. The first one allows low-privileged users (including simple subscribers) to change the 'tawkto-embed-widget-page-id' and 'tawkto-embed-widget-widget-id' parameters. Any authenticated user can thus link the vulnerable website to their own Tawk.to instance. Consequently, they will be able to monitor the vulnerable website and interact with its visitors (receive contact messages, answer, ...). They will also be able to display an arbitrary Knowledge Base. The second one will remove the live chat widget from pages.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Tawk.to Live Chat· Tawkwordpress-plugin
95%
v < 0.6.0
Affected range stops below 0.6.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (1)

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-862CWE-352

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