CVE-2024-1894: The Burst Statistics – Privacy-Friendly Analytics for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'burst_total_pageviews_count' custom meta field in all version

medium Affects burst-statistics (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published ; advisory modified .

The Burst Statistics – Privacy-Friendly Analytics for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'burst_total_pageviews_count' custom meta field in all version

Package
burst-statistics (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<1.5.7
Fixed in
1.5.7
Severity
medium  CVSS 6.4
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 1% (43.5th percentile)
Published
2024-03-13
Source
nvd

References

CWE-79
NVD recordburst-statistics (WordPress plugin) advisories

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