CVE-2026-101924 ice00 CVE debrief

Who should care

WordPress administrators and users of the NewStatPress plugin should assess exposure and apply necessary updates or mitigations. They should review the plugin version, monitor for suspicious activity, and consider implementing additional security measures. High-privileged users accessing the Overview page are at risk of executing injected scripts.

Why it matters

The NewStatPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting, allowing unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts. WordPress administrators and users of the NewStatPress plugin should assess exposure and apply necessary updates or mitigations.

• Unauthenticated attackers can inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a high-privileged user accesses the Overview page.
• The vulnerability can be exploited via the 'urlrequested' attribute in the query string.
• Successful exploitation requires user interaction, as the injected script only executes when a high-privileged user hovers over the injected link.
• The vulnerability has a high CVSS score of 7.2, indicating a high severity level.

Technical summary

The NewStatPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 1.4.5. The vulnerability is due to insufficient output escaping of the visitor-supplied query string that the plugin records in its statistics table. This allows unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a high-privileged user accesses the Overview page and hovers the injected link. The newstatpress_generate_overview_lastreferrers() function concatenates the stored urlrequested value into a single-quoted href attribute after only FILTER_SANITIZE_URL, which does not encode the apostrophe.

Defensive priority

High priority for WordPress administrators and users of the NewStatPress plugin to assess exposure and apply necessary updates or mitigations.

Recommended defensive actions

• Assess exposure by checking if the NewStatPress plugin version is 1.4.5 or earlier.
• Apply necessary updates or patches to the NewStatPress plugin.
• Monitor for suspicious activity on the WordPress site, particularly on the Overview admin page.
• Consider implementing additional security measures, such as input validation and output encoding.
• Review compensating controls for exposed systems while remediation is scheduled and verified.
• Track exceptions, retest remediated assets, and close the item only after evidence is documented.
• Confirm whether affected product deployments exist in managed environments and assign an owner for follow-up.

Evidence notes

The CVE record and source item provide details on the vulnerability in the NewStatPress plugin. The NVD entry is currently being processed. Evidence is visitor-supplied query string insufficiently escaped in plugin statistics table, and newstatpress_generate_overview_lastreferrers() concatenates stored urlrequested value into single-quoted href attribute after FILTER_SANITIZE_URL, which does not encode apostrophe.

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Methodology and review provenance

AI-assisted synthesis based on stored public vulnerability evidence. System validation, approval state, and publication status do not by themselves establish human review of this revision. PatchSiren helps prioritize defensive review and does not prove exposure or remediation on any system.