Page View Count, CVE-2021-24509

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2021-24509
Home page URL: Security reports for Page View Count
Application: Page View Count
Published on: 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 2.4.9.
Status: vulnerable