Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics <= 3.8 - Subscriber+ SQL Injection

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE	CVE-2021-24829
CVSS	High (8.8)
Publicly Published	October 6, 2021
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	ZhongFu Su

Description

The Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics WordPress plugin before 3.9 does not validate and escape user input passed to the today_traffic_index AJAX action (available to any authenticated users) before using it in a SQL statement, leading to an SQL injection issue

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	visitors-traffic-real-time-statistics (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 3.8
Patched Version	3.9

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