CVE-2024-1894
Burst Statistics – Privacy-Friendly Analytics for WordPress <= 1.5.6.1 - Authenticated(Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via burst_total_pageviews_count
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.4 Medium
- Published
- Mar 13, 2024
- Updated
- Apr 8, 2026
- Reserved
- Feb 26, 2024
Description
The Burst Statistics – Privacy-Friendly Analytics for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'burst_total_pageviews_count' custom meta field in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.6.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. Note that this exploit only functions if the victim has the 'Show Toolbar when viewing site' option enabled in their profile.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.4 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N | Wordfence |
Weaknesses
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Burst Statistics – Privacy-Friendly WordPress Analytics (Google Analytics Alternative)burstbv |
|
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fa587df5-9d96-4cac-ae5d-2a0485a3a789?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/burst-statistics/trunk/class-frontend.php#L67
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/burst-statistics/trunk/class-frontend.php#L74
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=/burst-statistics/tags/1.5.6.1&old=3049793&new_path=/burst-statistics/tags/1.5.7&new=3049793&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
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