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CVE-2026-3570: Smarter Analytics <= 2.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Plugin Settings Reset via 'reset' Parameter
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-03-21 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-862
Description
The Smarter Analytics plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access in all versions up to, and including, 2.0. This is due to missing authentication and capability checks on the configuration reset functionality in the global scope of smarter-analytics.php. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reset all plugin configuration and delete all per-page/per-post analytics settings via the 'reset' parameter.
Affected products
- acumenconsulting Smarter Analytics: through 2.0
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/smarter-analytics/tags/2.0/smarter-analytics.php#L27
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/smarter-analytics/trunk/smarter-analytics.php#L27
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/06f0d53d-734c-4cc1-902d-bdf4826036bf?source=cve
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