WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Official StatCounter Plugin < 2.1.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Nickname

Description

The StatCounter – Free Real Time Visitor Stats plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the user's Nickname in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affects Plugins

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Dmitrii Ignatyev
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-02-18 (about 3 months ago)
Added
2026-02-18 (about 3 months ago)
Last Updated
2026-05-21 (about 9 days ago)

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