CVE-2023-4597: medium-severity vulnerability in veronalabs SlimStat Analytics
Slimstat Analytics <= 5.0.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.4epss 0.7%
The Slimstat Analytics plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'slimstat' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 5.0.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Affected products
veronalabs · SlimStat AnalyticsRelated CVEs — veronalabs SlimStat Analytics
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2023-4598HIGHSlimstat Analytics <= 5.0.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Blind SQL Injection via ShortcodeEPSS 1.1%CVE-2024-9548HIGHSlimstat Analytics <= 5.2.6 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site ScriptingEPSS 0.5%CVE-2024-1073MEDIUMSlimStat Analytics <= 5.1.3 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site ScriptingEPSS 0.4%CVE-2026-7634HIGHSlimStat Analytics <= 5.4.11 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via User-Agent HeaderEPSS 0.4%CVE-2025-14151HIGHSlimStat Analytics <= 5.3.2 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site ScriptingEPSS 0.4%CVE-2026-1238HIGHSlimStat Analytics <= 5.3.5 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'fh'EPSS 0.3%
References
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174604/WordPress-Slimstat-Analytics-5.0.9-Cross-Site-Scripting-SQL-Injection.htmlhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-slimstat/tags/5.0.9/wp-slimstat.php#L892https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2959452%40wp-slimstat&new=2959452%40wp-slimstat&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/52aee4b8-f494-4eeb-8357-71ce8d5bc656?source=cve