CVE-2021-25042
MEDIUMWP Visitor Statistics < 5.5 - Authenticated Missing Authorization & XSS via updateIpAddress
Title source: llmDescription
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