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CVE-2024-1073: SlimStat Analytics <= 5.1.3 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 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: none known
• Published: 2024-02-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The SlimStat Analytics plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'filter_array' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• veronalabs SlimStat Analytics: through 5.1.3

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-slimstat/trunk/admin/index.php#L1004
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3029858%40wp-slimstat&new=3029858%40wp-slimstat&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/33cba63c-4629-48fd-850f-f68dad626a67?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-slimstat/trunk/admin/index.php#L1004
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3029858%40wp-slimstat&new=3029858%40wp-slimstat&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/33cba63c-4629-48fd-850f-f68dad626a67?source=cve

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