CVE-2026-6275 - StatCounter – Free Real Time Visitor Stats Plugin

The StatCounter – Free Real Time Visitor Stats plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 2.1.1 This is due to insufficient output escaping on the post author's nickname in the statcounter_addToTags() function. The function is hooked to wp_head and fires on every single post page. It retrieves the post author's nickname via the_author_meta() and echoes it directly into a JavaScript double-quoted string context inside a block without applying esc_js() or any equivalent JavaScript-context escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with…

CVE-2026-6275