Known vulnerabilities in Facebook Chat Plugin – Live Chat Plugin for WordPress

The Facebook Chat Plugin makes it easy for your website visitors to chat with you and ask you questions, even if they don't have Messenger.

2Reported vulnerabilities

7.4Highest CVSS score

2.5Latest version

70,000+Active installs

What to do now

Update Facebook Chat Plugin – Live Chat Plugin for WordPress to 1.6 or later. 2 of these have a fixed version available. Updating resolves them.

Plugin last updated: July 5, 2022 / Tested up to WordPress: 5.9.16 / View on wordpress.org

This plugin has not been updated in over two years. New vulnerabilities may never be fixed. Consider an alternative.

Reported vulnerabilities

Ordered by how urgently they need attention — whether a vulnerability is actually being exploited, and how likely exploitation is, rather than CVSS severity alone.

CVE	Severity	Exploit probability next 30 days	Affected versions	Fixed in	Published
CVE-2020-36838	High 7.4	0.4%	Before 1.6	`1.6`	August 4, 2020
WF-edd1396b-02f6-4292-82df-76c5eeecfe20	Medium 4.3	—	Before 1.3	`1.3`	June 17, 2019

Sources: vulnerability records from NVD, exploitation from CISA KEV, exploit probability from EPSS. Affected versions come from CPE ranges or from the reporting CNA.