Vulnerabilities and security researches forofficial-statcounter-plugin-for-wordpress official-statcounter-plugin-for-wordpress

Jun 06, 2024

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2021-24920
Home page URL: Security reports for StatCounter – Free Real Time Visitor Stats
Application: StatCounter – Free Real Time Visitor Stats
Date: Feb 28, 2022
Research Description: The StatCounter WordPress plugin before 2.0.7 does not sanitise and escape the Project ID and Secure Code settings, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed
Affected versions: max 2.0.7.
Status: vulnerable

Mar 29, 2026

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-13048
Home page URL: Security reports for StatCounter – Free Real Time Visitor Stats
Application: StatCounter – Free Real Time Visitor Stats
Date: Feb 19, 2026
Research Description: The StatCounter – Free Real Time Visitor Stats plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the user's Nickname in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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.
Affected versions: max 2.1.1.
Status: vulnerable