Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics: SQL injection
Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics is affected by SQL injection. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. A successful request can alter database queries and expose or modify WordPress data.
- Component
- Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics
- Plugin slug
visitor-traffic-real-time-statistics- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Nov 08, 2021
This CVE was published Nov 08, 2021 and is one of 3 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics WordPress plugin before 3.9 does not validate and escape user input passed to the today_traffic_index AJAX action (available to any authenticated users) before using it in a SQL statement, leading to an SQL injection issue
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H