Advanced Page Visit Counter <= 5.0.8 - Unauthenticated Cross-Site Scripting

2022-04-05 00:00

Krzysztof Zając

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 6.0.0

Affected PluginAdvanced Page Visit Counter – Most Wanted Analytics Plugin for WordPress

Affected Version<= 5.0.8

CVSS7.2High

CVECVE-2021-25086

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Vulnerability Overview

The Advanced Page Visit Counter WordPress plugin through 5.0.8 does not sanitise and escape some input before outputting it in an admin dashboard page, allowing unauthenticated attackers to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against admins viewing it

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 6.0.0, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')) The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-25086 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f444568c-fe4c-4fa6-9b83-2d069f851360

CVSS Vector

7.2

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeChanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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