Advanced Page Visit Counter <= 5.0.8 - Unauthenticated Cross-Site Scripting

7.2
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-25086
CVSS 7.2 (High)
Publicly Published April 5, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Krzysztof Zając - CERT PL

Description

The Advanced Page Visit Counter WordPress plugin through 5.0.8 does not sanitise and escape some input before outputting it in an admin dashboard page, allowing unauthenticated attackers to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against admins viewing it

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Vulnerability Details for Advanced Page Visit Counter – Most Wanted Analytics Plugin for WordPress

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug advanced-page-visit-counter (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 6.0.0, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 5.0.8
Patched Version
  • 6.0.0

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