🛡️ CVE-2022-25149 — wp-statistics

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-89 NVD

9.8

CVSS Score

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Description

The WP Statistics WordPress plugin is vulnerable to SQL Injection due to insufficient escaping and parameterization of the IP parameter found in the ~/includes/class-wp-statistics-hits.php file which allows attackers without authentication to inject arbitrary SQL queries to obtain sensitive information, in versions up to and including 13.1.5.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-25149 is classified as CWE-89: SQL Injection. Untrusted input is concatenated into an SQL statement, letting an attacker change the query and reach data the request should not return.

Affected software

CVE-2022-25149 is recorded against 1 package.

wp-statistics (fixed in 13.1.5)

Timeline and source

Published on 24 February 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

gist.github.com
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
www.wordfence.com
gist.github.com
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
www.wordfence.com

Details

Severity CRITICAL

CVSS Score 9.8

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE CWE-89

Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes

Source NVD

Published 2022-02-24

Updated 2026-08-20

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2679983%40wp-statistics&new=2679983%40wp-statistics&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
wp-statistics	—	13.1.5

References

Exploit, Third Party Advisory https://gist.github.com/Xib3rR4dAr/5dbd58b7f57a5037fe461fba8e696042

Patch, Third Party Advisory https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2679983%40wp-statistics&new=2679983%40wp-statistics&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Third Party Advisory https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-25149

Exploit, Third Party Advisory https://gist.github.com/Xib3rR4dAr/5dbd58b7f57a5037fe461fba8e696042

Patch, Third Party Advisory https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2679983%40wp-statistics&new=2679983%40wp-statistics&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Third Party Advisory https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-25149

🔗 NVD 🔗 Mitre ✅ Fix / Advisory

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