Security News > 2021 > May > WP Statistics Bug Allows Attackers to Lift Data from WordPress Sites

WP Statistics, a plugin installed on more than 600,000 WordPress websites, has an SQL-injection security vulnerability that could let site visitors make off with all kinds of sensitive information from web databases, including emails, credit-card data, passwords and more.

WP Statistics, as its name suggests, is a plugin that delivers analytics for site owners, including how many people visit the site, where they're coming from, what browsers and search engines they use, and which pages, categories and tags have the most visits.

Wordfence researchers found the high-severity bug in the "Pages" function, which lets administrators see which pages have received the most traffic.

"While the 'Pages' page was intended for administrators only and would not display information to non-admin users, it was possible to start loading this page's constructor by sending a request to wp-admin/admin.php with the page parameter set to wps pages page," said Wordfence researchers in a posting this week.

"In a targeted attack, this vulnerability could be used to extract personally identifiable information from commerce sites containing customer information. This underscores the importance of having security protections with an endpoint firewall in place wherever sensitive data is stored."

A similar bug was found earlier in May, which impacted the "Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalk" plugin, which is installed on more than 100,000 sites.

News URL

https://threatpost.com/wp-statistics-attackers-data-wordpress/166386/