CVE-2026-8181 PUBLISHED

Burst Statistics 3.4.0 - 3.4.1.1 - Authentication Bypass to Admin Account Takeover

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 08.05.2026 Published: 14.05.2026 Updated: 14.05.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 9.8

Product Status

Vendor burstbv
Product Burst Statistics – Privacy-Friendly WordPress Analytics (Google Analytics Alternative)
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 3.4.0 to 3.4.1.1 (incl.)

Credits

  • Chloe Chamberland finder
  • PRISM finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication CWE