Vulnerabilities and security researches forpage-views-count page-views-count

Jun 07, 2024

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2021-24509
Home page URL: Security reports for Page View Count
Application: Page View Count
Date: Aug 09, 2021
Research Description: The Page View Count WordPress plugin before 2.4.9 does not escape the postid parameter of pvc_stats shortcode, allowing users with a role as low as Contributor to perform Stored XSS attacks. A post made by a contributor would still have to be approved by an admin to have the XSS triggered in the frontend, however, higher privilege users, such as editor could exploit this without the need of approval, and even when the blog disallows the unfiltered_html capability.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-0095
Home page URL: Security reports for Page View Count
Application: Page View Count
Date: Feb 07, 2023
Research Description: The Page View Count WordPress plugin before 2.6.1 does not validate and escape some of its block options before outputting them back in a page/post where the block is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2022-0434
Home page URL: Security reports for Page View Count
Application: Page View Count
Date: Mar 07, 2022
Research Description: The Page View Count WordPress plugin before 2.4.15 does not sanitise and escape the post_ids parameter before using it in a SQL statement via a REST endpoint, available to both unauthenticated and authenticated users. As a result, unauthenticated attackers could perform SQL injection attacks
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2022-40131
Home page URL: Security reports for Page View Count
Application: Page View Count
Date: Nov 04, 2022
Research Description: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in a3rev Software Page View Count plugin <= 2.5.5 on WordPress allows an attacker to reset the plugin settings.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

May 05, 2025

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-2816
Home page URL: Security reports for Page View Count
Application: Page View Count
Date: May 01, 2025
Research Description: The Page View Count plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to a denial of service due to a missing capability check on the yellow_message_dontshow() function in versions 2.8.0 to 2.8.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update option values to one on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update an option that would create an error on the site and deny service to legitimate users or be used to set some values to true such as registration.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable