MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress <= 5.3.2 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

5.5
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVSS 5.5 (Medium)
Publicly Published March 6, 2015
Last Updated January 16, 2023
Researchers Kaustubh G. Padwad
Rohit Kumar

Description

The MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘manual_ua_code_field’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 5.3.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with admin-level privileges to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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Vulnerability Details for MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (Website Stats Made Easy)

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug google-analytics-for-wordpress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 5.3.3, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 5.3.2
Patched Version
  • 5.3.3

Recent vulnerabilities in MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (Website Stats Made Easy)

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 MonsterInsights <= 10.1.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sensitive Information Exposure And Plugin Integration Reset CVE-2026-5371 7.1 Dmitrii Ignatyev May 12, 2026
2 Google Analytics by Monster Insights <= 8.21.0 - Missing Authorization CVE-2023-52220 4.3 Rafie Muhammad January 5, 2024
3 Google Analytics by Monster Insights <= 8.14.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2023-23999 6.4 Rafie Muhammad May 10, 2023
4 MonsterInsights <= 8.12.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2023-0081 6.4 István Márton January 13, 2023
5 MonsterInsights <= 8.9.0 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Google Analytics CVE-2022-3904 5.4 Grzegorz Niedziela December 23, 2022
6 MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress <= 7.1 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting 6.4 RIPS Technologies September 18, 2018
7 MonsterInsights - Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress <= 5.4.4 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting 3.8 Mallory Adams August 10, 2015
8 MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (Website Stats Made Easy) <= 5.3.3 - Cross-Site Scripting 7.2 Jouko Pynnöne April 20, 2015
9 MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress <= 5.3.2 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting 7.2 Jouko Pynnöne March 19, 2015
10 MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (Website Stats Made Easy) <= 5.1.2 - Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2014-9174 3.5 SecuBeastTeam November 26, 2014

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