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WordPress Plugin: official-statcounter-plugin-for-wordpress: CVE-2021-24920: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Published

Jan 26, 2022

Added

May 15, 2025

Modified

May 4, 2026

Description

The StatCounter WordPress plugin before 2.0.7 does not sanitise and escape the Project ID and Secure Code settings, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Solution

official-statcounter-plugin-for-wordpress-plugin-cve-2021-24920

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-24920
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/edcc51f8-bf79-453a-aa4d-5d1d491316eb?source=api-prod
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2021-11832
CVE-2021-24920
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2021-24920
CWE-79
EUVD-EUVD-2021-11832

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