WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Post Views Stats Counter <= 1.1.7 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via User-Agent Header
Description
The Post Views Stats Counter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via User-Agent Header in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The plugin's only input filter is a substring blacklist for known bot signatures (e.g. 'bot', 'spider', 'crawler'), which can be trivially bypassed by crafting a User-Agent payload that omits those strings.
Affects Plugins
References
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Nawaf Althurwi (JailBr3ak)
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2026-09-29 (about 17 days ago)
Added
2026-09-29 (about 17 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-09-30 (about 16 days ago)