Vulnerability · Published Feb 28, 2022 · Assigned by WPScan
CVE-2021-25042WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic) < 5.5 - Arbitrary IP Address Exclusion to Stored XSS
Medium 5.4
In plain English
A medium-severity missing authorization in WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic) from Unknown. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 45% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official 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
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic) | 5.5 – before 5.5 |
Weakness: CWE-862