SB20250619127 - Multiple vulnerabilities in WP Online Users Stats plugin for WordPress
Published: June 19, 2025
Breakdown by Severity
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- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) SQL injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-4964)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to execute arbitrary SQL queries in database.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the "table_name" parameter. A remote administrator can send a specially crafted request to the affected application and execute arbitrary SQL commands within the application database.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to read, delete, modify data in database and gain complete control over the affected application.
2) Cross-site request forgery (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-4966)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin within the hk_dataset_results() function. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-online-users-stats/trunk/admin/class-wp-online-users-stats-admin.php#L118
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-online-users-stats/#developers
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a7ef66cf-ddf1-42be-82b1-cb6edcbf253c?source=cve
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a41226ab-9732-4de2-843b-284c011c9224?source=cve