What is CVE-2023-5529?

CVE-2023-5529 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pagevisitcounter Advanced Page Visit Counter, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2025-05-15.

How severe is CVE-2023-5529?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

XSS in Pagevisitcounter Advanced Page Visit Counter

CVE-2023-5529

The Advanced Page Visit Counter WordPress plugin before 8.0.6 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (24.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Pagevisitcounter Advanced_page_visit_counter
Unknown Advanced Page Visit Counter — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-5529?: CVE-2023-5529 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pagevisitcounter Advanced Page Visit Counter, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2025-05-15.
How severe is CVE-2023-5529?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.