Stored Cross-Site Scripting in StatCounter Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2025-13048

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Statcounter – Free Real Time Visitor Stats
Vendor
CVE Published:
19 February 2026

What is CVE-2025-13048?

The StatCounter – Free Real Time Visitor Stats plugin for WordPress has a vulnerability that exposes it to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. This issue arises from inadequate input sanitization and output escaping related to the user's Nickname field. Authenticated users with Contributor-level access or higher can exploit this vulnerability to inject malicious web scripts. These scripts will execute whenever a user accesses affected pages, posing serious risks to the site's integrity and user safety.

Affected Version(s)

StatCounter – Free Real Time Visitor Stats 0 <= 2.1.0

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/official-statc...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&s...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Dmitrii Ignatyev
.