CVE-2021-25042
Medium
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
SeverityMedium
CVSS5.4
Exploit probability—
ProductCodepress Visitor Statistics
PublishedFeb 28, 2022
First seenFeb 28, 2022
Weakness typeCWE-862Missing authorization
How to fix
Update
- codepress visitor_statistics5.5 or later
Affected products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| codepress visitor_statistics | v < 5.5 | 5.5 |
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