Description
The StatCounter – Free Real Time Visitor Stats plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the user's Nickname in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Published: 2026-02-19
Score: 6.4 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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History

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Statcounter
Statcounter statcounter – Free Real Time Visitor Stats
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Vendors & Products Statcounter
Statcounter statcounter – Free Real Time Visitor Stats
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:15:00 +0000

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Description The StatCounter – Free Real Time Visitor Stats plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the user's Nickname in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Title Official StatCounter Plugin <= 2.1.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Nickname
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


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Statcounter Statcounter – Free Real Time Visitor Stats
Wordpress Wordpress
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-02-19T17:40:41.496Z

Reserved: 2025-11-12T08:51:02.962Z

Link: CVE-2025-13048

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-02-19T17:04:18.492Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-02-19T07:17:29.643

Modified: 2026-02-19T15:53:02.850

Link: CVE-2025-13048

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No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-02-19T10:07:32Z

Weaknesses