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Vulnerability record · CVE-2021-25042 · published 28 February 2022

CVE-2021-25042: Codepress visitor statistics missing authorization vulnerability

Codepress · Visitor Statistics

The WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic) WordPress plugin before 5.5 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks in the updateIpAddress AJAX action, allowing any authenticated user to call it, or make a logged in user do it via a CSRF attack and add an arbitrary IP address to exclude. Furthermore, due to the lack of validation, sanitisation and escaping, users could set a malicious value and perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against logged in admin

5.4 CVSS 3.1 Medium EPSS 0.52% · top 57.8% CWE-862 · Missing authorization
5.4CVSS 3.1 base score, v2 3.5
0.52%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
2References, 2 tagged exploit
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

The WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic) WordPress plugin before 5.5 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks in the updateIpAddress AJAX action, allowing any authenticated user to call it, or make a logged in user do it via a CSRF attack and add an arbitrary IP address to exclude. Furthermore, due to the lack of validation, sanitisation and escaping, users could set a malicious value and perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against logged in admin

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/05b9e478-2d3b-4460-88c1-7f81d3a68ac4 ExploitThird Party Advisory
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/05b9e478-2d3b-4460-88c1-7f81d3a68ac4 ExploitThird Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2021-25042), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.