CVE Explorer
CVE-2026-6275
The StatCounter – Free Real Time Visitor Stats plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 2.1.1 This is due to insufficient output escaping on the post author's nickname in the statcounter_addToTags() function. The function is hooked to wp_head and fires on every single post page. It retrieves the post author's nickname via the_author_meta() and echoes it directly into a JavaScript double-quoted string context inside a <script> block witho
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0
Affected products and versions
1 source assertion{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"StatCounter – Free Real Time Visitor Stats","vendor":"statcounter","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"2.1.1","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5affectedurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:355300107537d02cdc6c9b26a395b58cefba34971f24e3bb3f6e0ec8b30bfe90 · sha256:67a016b8dcd3fbcc… · /containers/cna/affected/0
Provider-owned CVSS observations
1 source assertion{"metric":{"baseScore":6.4,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5cvssurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:355300107537d02cdc6c9b26a395b58cefba34971f24e3bb3f6e0ec8b30bfe90 · sha256:67a016b8dcd3fbcc… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1
CWE assertions
1 source assertion{"cweId":"CWE-79","description":"CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5cweurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:355300107537d02cdc6c9b26a395b58cefba34971f24e3bb3f6e0ec8b30bfe90 · sha256:67a016b8dcd3fbcc… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0
Source references
6 source assertions{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/official-statcounter-plugin-for-wordpress/tags/2.1.1/StatCounter-Wordpress-Plugin.php#L266"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:355300107537d02cdc6c9b26a395b58cefba34971f24e3bb3f6e0ec8b30bfe90 · sha256:67a016b8dcd3fbcc… · /containers/cna/references/4
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/official-statcounter-plugin-for-wordpress/tags/2.1.1/StatCounter-Wordpress-Plugin.php#L274"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:355300107537d02cdc6c9b26a395b58cefba34971f24e3bb3f6e0ec8b30bfe90 · sha256:67a016b8dcd3fbcc… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/official-statcounter-plugin-for-wordpress/trunk/StatCounter-Wordpress-Plugin.php#L266"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:355300107537d02cdc6c9b26a395b58cefba34971f24e3bb3f6e0ec8b30bfe90 · sha256:67a016b8dcd3fbcc… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/official-statcounter-plugin-for-wordpress/trunk/StatCounter-Wordpress-Plugin.php#L274"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:355300107537d02cdc6c9b26a395b58cefba34971f24e3bb3f6e0ec8b30bfe90 · sha256:67a016b8dcd3fbcc… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fofficial-statcounter-plugin-for-wordpress/tags/2.1.1&new_path=%2Fofficial-statcounter-plugin-for-wordpress/tags/2.1.2"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:355300107537d02cdc6c9b26a395b58cefba34971f24e3bb3f6e0ec8b30bfe90 · sha256:67a016b8dcd3fbcc… · /containers/cna/references/5
{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/30e0bf40-7f7b-43e6-8439-6dc00a889344?source=cve"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:355300107537d02cdc6c9b26a395b58cefba34971f24e3bb3f6e0ec8b30bfe90 · sha256:67a016b8dcd3fbcc… · /containers/cna/references/0
Attribution and limitations
- CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →
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