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CVE-2021-25042
MEDIUM5.4
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
CVE Details
CVSS v3.1 Score5.4
SeverityMEDIUM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack VectorNETWORK
ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredLOW
User InteractionREQUIRED
Published2/28/2022
Last Modified3/6/2026
Sourcenvd
Honeypot Sightings0
Affected Products
codepress:visitor_statistics
Weaknesses (CWE)
CWE-862
References
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/05b9e478-2d3b-4460-88c1-7f81d3a68ac4(contact@wpscan.com)
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/05b9e478-2d3b-4460-88c1-7f81d3a68ac4(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
IOC Correlations
No correlations recorded
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