CVE-2026-8181

216.73.216.233

· Published 14/05/2026 06:16 · Modified 14/05/2026 14:28

Labels: CVE-2026-8181 2026-05-14 CVE-2026-8181 CWE-287 [email protected]

Essential information

Published: 14/05/2026 06:16
Modified: 14/05/2026 14:28
Author: —
Creator: —
CVSS: 9.8 CRITICAL (v3.1)
CISA KEV: No
CWE: —
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS metrics

Description

The Burst Statistics – Privacy-Friendly WordPress Analytics (Google Analytics Alternative) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in versions 3.4.0 to 3.4.1.1. This is due to incorrect return-value handling in the `is_mainwp_authenticated()` function when validating application passwords from the Authorization header. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers, with knowledge of an administrator username, to impersonate that administrator for the duration of the request by supplying any random Basic Authentication password achieving privilege escalation.

NVD status

Status: Deferred — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
Source: [email protected]
NVD: View on NVD

Affected products (CPE)

Product	CPE
burst statistics / privacy friendly wordpress analytics	`cpe:2.3:a:burst_statistics:privacy_friendly_wordpress_analytics:3.4.0-3.4.1.1:::::wordpress::`