CVE-2021-25042

WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic) < 5.5 - Arbitrary IP Address Exclusion to Stored XSS

Published Feb 28, 2022 CVSS 3.1 · 5.4 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-11954 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
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Codepress
Codepress visitor Statistics
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:plugins-market:wp_visitor_statistics_\(real_time_traffic\):*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* cpe:2.3:a:codepress:visitor_statistics:*:*:*:*:-:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Plugins-market
Plugins-market wp Visitor Statistics \(real Time Traffic\)
Codepress
Codepress visitor Statistics
Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
WPScan
Published
Updated
Aug 3, 2024, 7:49 PM
Reserved
Jan 14, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Feb 28, 2022, 9:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:41 AM