WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Burst Statistics 3.4.0 - 3.4.1.1 - Authentication Bypass to Admin Account Takeover

Description

The Burst Statistics – Privacy-Friendly WordPress Analytics (Google Analytics Alternative) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in versions 3.4.0 to 3.4.1.1. This is due to incorrect return-value handling in the `is_mainwp_authenticated()` function when validating application passwords from the Authorization header. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers, with knowledge of an administrator username, to impersonate that administrator for the duration of the request by supplying any random Basic Authentication password achieving privilege escalation.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 3.4.2

References

Classification

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Chloe Chamberland, PRISM
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-05-13 (about 18 days ago)
Added
2026-05-15 (about 16 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-05-30 (about 16 hours ago)

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