CVE-2026-97341
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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
Propose a mitigation on Community Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/visitors-traffic-real-time-statistics/tags/8.14/WPHitsCounter.php#L877
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/visitors-traffic-real-time-statistics/tags/8.14/functions.php#L3407
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/visitors-traffic-real-time-statistics/tags/8.14/functions.php#L3756
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/visitors-traffic-real-time-statistics/tags/8.14/functions.php#L4735
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/visitors-traffic-real-time-statistics/tags/8.14/js/ahcfree_js_scripts.js#L1036
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3722792%40visitors-traffic-real-time-statistics&new=3722792%40visitors-traffic-real-time-statistics
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5349815d-a9e4-431a-8da7-0d7d68b7d427?source=cve
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.