THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2021-24750
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2021-24750

Visitor Statistics vulnerability

CVSS
8.8
EPSS
38.3%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
The WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic) WordPress plugin before 4.8 does not properly sanitise and escape the refUrl in the refDetails AJAX action, available to any authenticated user, which could allow users with a role as low as subscriber to perform SQL injection attacks
Affected vendor
Codepress
Affected product
Visitor Statistics
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2021-12-21

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 38.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2021-24750

  • Confirm whether Codepress Visitor Statistics is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2021-24750.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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