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CVE-2021-24613: Post Views Counter < 1.3.5 - Authenticated Stored XSS

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-09-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Post Views Counter WordPress plugin before 1.3.5 does not sanitise or escape its Post Views Label settings, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks in the frontend even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Affected products

• dFactory Post Views Counter: before 1.3.5 — fixed in 1.3.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: dFactory Post Views Counter 1.3.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0b8c5947-bc73-448e-8f10-a4f4456e4000
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0b8c5947-bc73-448e-8f10-a4f4456e4000

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