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CVE-2023-5761: The Burst Statistics – Privacy-Friendly Analytics for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'url' parameter in versions 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.1 (free) and versions 1.4.0 to 1.

critical Affects burst-statistics (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.4, updated 2026-10-29; published ; advisory modified .

The Burst Statistics – Privacy-Friendly Analytics for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'url' parameter in versions 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.1 (free) and versions 1.4.0 to 1.

Package
burst-statistics (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
>=1.4.0 and <1.5.0 or >=1.4.0 and <1.5.1
Fixed in
1.5.1
Severity
critical  CVSS 9.8
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 1% (52.7th percentile)
Published
2023-12-07
Source
nvd

References

CWE-89
NVD recordburst-statistics (WordPress plugin) advisories

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