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CVE-2023-5529: Advanced Page Visit Counter <= 8.0.6 - Admin+ Stored XSS
- Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2025-05-15 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-79
Description
The Advanced Page Visit Counter WordPress plugin before 8.0.6 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
Affected products
- Page Visit Counter Advanced Page Visit Counter – Most Wanted Analytics Plugin for WordPress: through 8.0.6
References
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