#VU105842 Cross-site scripting in pixelstats - CVE-2025-2164
Published: March 18, 2025
pixelstats
Timo Fuchs
Description
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the "post_id" and "sortby" parameters. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Remediation
External links
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pixelstats/tags/0.8.2/pixelstats.php#L331
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pixelstats/tags/0.8.2/pixelstats.php#L664
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/pixelstats/
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8683bc00-1136-42c4-a256-84b2cac1d575?source=cve