CVE-2026-8181

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
burstbvBurst Statistics – Privacy-Friendly WordPress Analytics (Google Analytics Alternative)3.4.0 <= 3.4.1.1affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-287: CWE-287 Improper Authentication

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: total

References