Visit Counter 1.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2025-12452
CVSS Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published November 3, 2025
Last Updated November 4, 2025
Researcher Mohammadamin Alidoost
Description

The Visit Counter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in version 1.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the widgets.php page. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update settings and inject malicious web scripts via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug visit-counter (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • 1.0 - 1.0
Patched Version
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