CVE-2026-101924
The NewStatPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 1.4.5 via the 'Last referrers' meta box on the plugin's Overview admin page.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.31%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
The NewStatPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 1.4.5 via the 'Last referrers' meta box on the plugin's Overview admin page. This is due to insufficient output escaping of the visitor-supplied query string that the plugin records in its statistics table: the newstatpress_generate_overview_lastreferrers() function concatenates the stored urlrequested value into a single-quoted href attribute after only FILTER_SANITIZE_URL, which does not encode the apostrophe. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a high-privileged user, such as an administrator, accesses the Overview page and hovers the injected link.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.2 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.31% probability · 23th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Source
- security@wordfence.com
EPSS moved from 0.3% on 14 October 2026 to 0.3% on 26 October 2026.
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/newstatpress/tags/1.4.5/includes/nsp-overview.php#L320
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/newstatpress/tags/1.4.5/newstatpress.php#L1447
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/newstatpress/tags/1.4.5/newstatpress.php#L839
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/234d79fc-5f00-457d-a693-ad3f6d38447b?source=cve
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.