The WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic) WordPress plugin before 6.5 does not validate and escape one of its shortcode attributes, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attack.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-51980 The WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic) WordPress plugin before 6.5 does not validate and escape one of its shortcode attributes, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attack.
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History

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:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* cpe:2.3:a:codepress:visitor_statistics:*:*:*:*:-:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Plugins-market
Plugins-market wp Visitor Statistics
Codepress
Codepress visitor Statistics

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2025-03-20T18:36:55.634Z

Reserved: 2022-12-22T10:14:44.194Z

Link: CVE-2022-4656

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:48:38.893Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2023-02-13T15:15:18.590

Modified: 2026-03-06T19:34:04.627

Link: CVE-2022-4656

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