The Advanced Page Visit Counter WordPress plugin before 8.0.6 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

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History

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Pagevisitcounter
Pagevisitcounter advanced Page Visit Counter
Weaknesses CWE-79
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:pagevisitcounter:advanced_page_visit_counter:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Pagevisitcounter
Pagevisitcounter advanced Page Visit Counter

Fri, 16 May 2025 19:15:00 +0000

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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

ssvc

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


Thu, 15 May 2025 20:15:00 +0000

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Description The Advanced Page Visit Counter WordPress plugin before 8.0.6 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
Title Advanced Page Visit Counter <= 8.0.6 - Admin+ Stored XSS
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2025-05-16T18:34:08.484Z

Reserved: 2023-10-11T16:24:47.492Z

Link: CVE-2023-5529

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-05-16T18:34:02.642Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-05-15T20:15:28.377

Modified: 2025-06-04T16:25:59.440

Link: CVE-2023-5529

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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