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

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-11954 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
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Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Codepress
Codepress visitor Statistics
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:plugins-market:wp_visitor_statistics_\(real_time_traffic\):*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* cpe:2.3:a:codepress:visitor_statistics:*:*:*:*:-:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Plugins-market
Plugins-market wp Visitor Statistics \(real Time Traffic\)
Codepress
Codepress visitor Statistics

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T19:49:14.590Z

Reserved: 2021-01-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-25042

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2022-02-28T09:15:08.580

Modified: 2026-03-06T19:34:18.977

Link: CVE-2021-25042

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