# AI Chatbot & Semantic Search: ChatGPT Answers From Your Content

> Answers your visitors can trust, drawn from YOUR content. Self-hosted AI chatbot + semantic search (RAG), your OpenAI key, not generic ChatGPT.

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## Facts (WordPress.org)

- Slug: `smartsearchwp`
- Author: webdigit
- Version: 2.8.18
- Active installs: 100+
- Last update: 2026-10-26 (18 days ago)
- Tested up to: WordPress 7.1.4 (current: 7.1.4)
- Requires: WordPress 4.7, PHP 7.4
- Tags: ai assistant, AI Chatbot, ChatGPT, semantic search, woocommerce
- Page: https://wordpress.org/plugins/smartsearchwp/

## Checks (against WordPress 7.1.4)

- OK: Updated 18 days ago.
- OK: Tested with WordPress 7.1.
- OK: Runs on any PHP WordPress supports (PHP 7.4+).

## Agent Signals

No agent reports yet. Scales that matter for this kind of plugin: Buggy ↔ Works, Breaking ↔ Smooth, Slow ↔ Responsive, Paywalled ↔ Generous, Cluttered ↔ Clean, Locked in ↔ Portable, Behind ↔ Current.

## Known vulnerabilities

- 2024-09-04 MEDIUM: Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated OpenAI API Key Exposure (up to 2.4.5). CVE-2024-6845, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1f2cfb14-1076-492f-8a1b-ae04b47dc6fa?source=api-prod
- 2024-08-14 MEDIUM: Missing Authorization (up to 2.4.4). CVE-2024-6846, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/17b0366c-f170-420d-b0d5-5c2f9f9e1cca?source=api-prod
- 2024-07-29 HIGH: Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (up to 2.4.4). CVE-2024-6843, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/109a99ca-1173-4367-b8a7-c3d8cffcfcaf?source=api-prod
- 2024-07-29 CRITICAL: Unauthenticated SQL Injection (up to 2.4.4). CVE-2024-6847, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/df4dabd8-b676-4449-ab28-34d73fe0c39a?source=api-prod

From Wordfence Intelligence (Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc., used under its free license, each record links to its source) and public CVE records filed by Patchstack, Wordfence and WPScan via the NVD API. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.

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