Seriously Simple Stats
Seriously Simple Stats has 3 disclosed vulnerabilities in the WordSec catalog, reported between 2023 and 2024; all 3 are fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 6.5, and the most serious one scores 7.2 out of 10. Severity breakdown: 0 critical and 1 high. 2023 was the busiest year with 2 disclosures.
The most common weakness is Cross-Site Scripting, behind 2 of the records (67%). Other recurring categories include SQL Injection.
Every one of the 3 issues recorded for Seriously Simple Stats has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes all known holes.
2 independent researchers contributed these findings, most of them (2) reported by Rafie Muhammad. Seriously Simple Stats is installed on roughly 5,000 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 6.9.7.
CVE-2023-45001Seriously Simple Stats <= 1.5.0 - Authenticated (Podcast manager+) SQL Injection via order_by
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Seriously Simple Stats
Author
Craig Hewitt
This plugin is an add-on for Seriously Simple Podcasting and requires at least v1.13.1 of Seriously Simple Podcasting in order to work. So you love using Seriously Simple Podcasting to broadcast your content? Well, now you can enjoy the plugin’s simplicity while also gathering useful and extensive stats about how people are engaging with your inevitably brilliant content. Seriously Simple Stats offers integrated analytics for your podcast, giving you access to incredibly useful information about who is listening to your podcast and how they are accessing it. Primary Features Track listen counts for every episode View detailed stats for your podcast See a quick overview of your most recent stats at a glance Narrow stats down to view data specific to any episode or series Access stats for any selected date range Find out exactly which of your episodes are the most popular Find out how people are listening to your content Automatically detect crawlers/bots to prevent false stats Check out the screenshots for a better idea of what stats you can expect. How to contribute If you want to contribute to Seriously Simple Stats, you can fork the GitHub repository – all pull requests will be reviewed and merged if they fit into the goals for the plugin.
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