$ cve CVE-2026-8181 JSON

CVE-2026-8181

9.8

CRITICAL · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 3% (pctl 87)

In your normal cycle

Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation.

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.

Scoring

CVSS	9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.1)
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS	3.01% — more likely to be exploited than 87% of all CVEs
Weakness	CWE-287
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	none known
Published	2026-05-14
Last modified	2026-06-17

References

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