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CVE-2021-25042

MEDIUM 5.4 CVSS 3.1
Published
February 28, 2022
Last modified
June 17, 2026
NVD status
Analyzed
Reported by
contact@wpscan.com
Weakness
CWE-862
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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

Affected WordPress components

  • WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic) Plugin · wp-stats-manager
    Confirmed match Active
    From 5.5 (including) to 5.5 (excluding)
    View on WordPress.org

A confirmed match is backed by the plugin or theme slug. A possible match is based on the product name only and should be verified.

Affected products and versions

  • Unknown WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic) — From 5.5 (including) to 5.5 (excluding)
  • codepress visitor_statistics — Before 5.5

References

  • wpscan.com https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/05b9e478-2d3b-4460-88c1-7f81d3a68ac4 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
  • nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record