WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic) <= 5.4 - Missing Authorization to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

5.4
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2021-25042
CVSS 5.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published January 31, 2022
Last Updated January 16, 2023
Researcher Krzysztof Zając - CERT PL

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

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Vulnerability Details for WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic)

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-stats-manager (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 5.5, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 5.4
Patched Version
  • 5.5

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