PT-2026-44751 · Statcounter · Statcounter – Free Real Time Visitor Stats

Zast.Ai · Published 2026-05-29 · Updated 2026-05-29 · CVE-2026-6275

NVD

CVSS v3.1

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-6275

Affected Products

Statcounter – Free Real Time Visitor Stats

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-6275 · Security Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/official-statcounter-plugin-for-wordpress/trunk/StatCounter-Wordpress-Plugin.php#L266 · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/official-statcounter-plugin-for-wordpress/tags/2.1.1/StatCounter-Wordpress-Plugin.php#L266 · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/official-statcounter-plugin-for-wordpress/tags/2.1.1/StatCounter-Wordpress-Plugin.php#L274 · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/official-statcounter-plugin-for-wordpress/trunk/StatCounter-Wordpress-Plugin.php#L274 · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/30e0bf40-7f7b-43e6-8439-6dc00a889344?source=cve · Note
• 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 · Note