The Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via 'X-Real-IP' HTTP Header in all versions up to, and including, 8.16 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This requires no authentication, no nonce, and no capability — the wp_ajax_nopriv_ahcfree_track_visitor endpoint accepts the forged X-Real-IP header from any unauthenticated HTTP request and stores the entity-encoded payload verbatim in the database.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
wp-buy Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics unaffected
Version Status Constraints
0 affected ≤ 8.16

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https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/visitors-traffic-real-time-statistics/tags/8.14/WPHitsCounter.php#L877 cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/visitors-traffic-real-time-statistics/tags/8.14/functions.php#L3407 cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/visitors-traffic-real-time-statistics/tags/8.14/functions.php#L3756 cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/visitors-traffic-real-time-statistics/tags/8.14/functions.php#L4735 cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/visitors-traffic-real-time-statistics/tags/8.14/js/ahcfree_js_scripts.js#L1036 cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3722792%40visitors-traffic-real-time-statistics&new=3722792%40visitors-traffic-real-time-statistics cve-icon
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5349815d-a9e4-431a-8da7-0d7d68b7d427?source=cve cve-icon
History

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 05:45:00 +0000

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Description The Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via 'X-Real-IP' HTTP Header in all versions up to, and including, 8.16 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This requires no authentication, no nonce, and no capability — the wp_ajax_nopriv_ahcfree_track_visitor endpoint accepts the forged X-Real-IP header from any unauthenticated HTTP request and stores the entity-encoded payload verbatim in the database.
Title Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics <= 8.16 - Unauthenticated Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via 'X-Real-IP' HTTP Header
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-03T05:29:14.083Z

Reserved: 2026-09-24T12:24:02.694Z

Link: CVE-2026-97341

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