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This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-11","score":0.00336,"percentile":0.27293,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-89"],"published":"2026-10-28T06:45:04Z","modified":"2026-10-29T02:16:50Z","products":[{"vendor":"osamaesh","product":"wp visitor statistics (real time traffic)"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/00dbb2e7-5989-4fb9-b30b-ee582bf39e3f?source=cve"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-stats-manager/tags/8.8/includes/wsm_db.php#L1449"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-stats-manager/tags/8.8/includes/wsm_statistics.php#L2002"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-stats-manager/tags/8.8/includes/wsm_statistics.php#L1980"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-stats-manager/tags/8.8/includes/wsm_db.php#L1629"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3768203/wp-stats-manager/trunk/includes/wsm_db.php"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-116609"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-977q-pq7w-wxx3"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-116609","title":"WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic) \u003c= 8.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection via 'from' Shortcode Attribute","description":"The WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'from' (and sibling 'to'/'first'/'second') shortcode attribute of the [wsm_showTrafficStatsList] shortcode in versions up to, and including, 8.8 This is due to insufficient escaping on the user-supplied attribute and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query: `shortcode_atts()` returns attacker-supplied shortcode attributes verbatim (WP core performs no sanitization), only `$atts['id']` is re-sanitized afterward, and the raw value is then concatenated into a double-quoted SQL string literal inside `fnGetHourlyReportByDateNameTimeZone()` (`includes/wsm_db.php:1449`) and executed via `$wpdb-\u003eget_results()`. 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