WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic) < 8.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'height' Shortcode Attribute

Description

The WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'wsm_showDayStatsGraph' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 8.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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

Fixed in 8.5

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Muhammad Yudha - DJ
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-04-07 (about 2 months ago)
Added
2026-04-07 (about 2 months ago)
Last Updated
2026-04-08 (about 2 months ago)

Other