{"id":"CVE-2021-24340","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2021-24340","generatedAt":"2026-11-05T01:17:37.701Z","title":"The WP Statistics WordPress plugin before 13.0.8 relied on using the WordPress esc_sql() function on a field not delimited by quotes and did not first prepare the query.","description":"The WP Statistics WordPress plugin before 13.0.8 relied on using the WordPress esc_sql() function on a field not delimited by quotes and did not first prepare the query. Additionally, the page, which should have been accessible to administrator only, was also available to any visitor, including unauthenticated ones.","published":"2021-06-07T11:15:17.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:39:52.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"contact@wpscan.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-89"],"affected":["veronalabs/wp statistics"],"epss":{"score":0.29776,"percentile":0.98201,"date":"2026-11-03","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 29.8%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d2970cfb-0aa9-4516-9a4b-32971f41a19c","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"contact@wpscan.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/05/over-600000-sites-impacted-by-wp-statistics-patch/","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"contact@wpscan.com"},{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d2970cfb-0aa9-4516-9a4b-32971f41a19c","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/05/over-600000-sites-impacted-by-wp-statistics-patch/","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24340","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}