CVE-2026-6275

The StatCounter – Free Real Time Visitor Stats plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 2.1.1 This is due to insufficient output escaping on the post author's nickname in the statcounter_addToTags() function. The function is hooked to wp_head and fires on every single post page. It retrieves the post author's nickname via the_author_meta() and echoes it directly into a JavaScript double-quoted string context inside a <script> block without applying esc_js() or any equivalent JavaScript-context escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Author-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages that will execute whenever any user (including unauthenticated visitors) accesses a post authored by the attacker.

• CWE-79

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/official-statcounter-plugin-for-wordpress/tags/2.1.1/StatCounter-Wordpress-Plugin.php#L266
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/official-statcounter-plugin-for-wordpress/tags/2.1.1/StatCounter-Wordpress-Plugin.php#L274
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/official-statcounter-plugin-for-wordpress/trunk/StatCounter-Wordpress-Plugin.php#L266
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/official-statcounter-plugin-for-wordpress/trunk/StatCounter-Wordpress-Plugin.php#L274
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fofficial-statcounter-plugin-for-wordpress/tags/2.1.1&new_path=%2Fofficial-statcounter-plugin-for-wordpress/tags/2.1.2
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/30e0bf40-7f7b-43e6-8439-6dc00a889344?source=cve

Published

May 29, 2026

Last Modified

Jul 21, 2026

Status

Deferred

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