Description

WordPress Plugin WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic) is prone to a security bypass vulnerability. Exploiting this issue may allow attackers to perform otherwise restricted actions and subsequently make an unauthorized AJAX call and add an arbitrary IP address to exclude. WordPress Plugin WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic) version 5.4 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.

Remediation

Update to plugin version 5.5 or latest

References

https://sploitus.com/exploit?id=WPEX-ID:05B9E478-2D3B-4460-88C1-7F81D3A68AC4

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-stats-manager/trunk/readme.txt

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2021-25042 CWE-862 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update Authentication Bypass