Description
The WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'from' (and sibling 'to'/'first'/'second') shortcode attribute of the [wsm_showTrafficStatsList] shortcode in versions up to, and including, 8.8 This is due to insufficient escaping on the user-supplied attribute and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query: `shortcode_atts()` returns attacker-supplied shortcode attributes verbatim (WP core performs no sanitization), only `$atts['id']` is re-sanitized afterward, and the raw value is then concatenated into a double-quoted SQL string literal inside `fnGetHourlyReportByDateNameTimeZone()` (`includes/wsm_db.php:1449`) and executed via `$wpdb->get_results()`. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
References6
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-stats-manager/tags/8.8/in…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-stats-manager/tags/8.8/in…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-stats-manager/tags/8.8/in…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-stats-manager/tags/8.8/in…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3768203/wp-stats-manager/t…
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/00dbb2e7-5989…
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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6.5
MEDIUM
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 27 · as of 3 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-89
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