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CVE-2025-2816: The Page View Count plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to a denial of service due to a missing capability check on the yellow_message_dontshow() func

high Affects page-views-count (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published ; advisory modified .

The Page View Count plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to a denial of service due to a missing capability check on the yellow_message_dontshow() func

Package
page-views-count (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
>=2.8.0 and <2.8.5
Fixed in
2.8.5
Severity
high  CVSS 8.1
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 0% (30.2th percentile)
Published
2025-05-01
Source
nvd

References

CWE-862
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