CVE-2021-25042

MEDIUM

WP Visitor Statistics < 5.5 - Authenticated Missing Authorization & XSS via updateIpAddress

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic) WordPress plugin before 5.5 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks in the updateIpAddress AJAX action, allowing any authenticated user to call it, or make a logged in user do it via a CSRF attack and add an arbitrary IP address to exclude. Furthermore, due to the lack of validation, sanitisation and escaping, users could set a malicious value and perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against logged in admin

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/05b9e478-2d3b-4460-88c1-7f81d3a68ac4

Scores

CVSS v3 5.4
EPSS 0.0052
EPSS Percentile 40.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-862
Status published
Products (2)
codepress/visitor_statistics < 5.5
plugins-market/wp_visitor_statistics_\(real_time_traffic\) < 5.5
Published Feb 28, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026