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Google Analytics Counter Tracker <= 3.4.1 — Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection

7dc9dc1c-2d79-4dc3-9fee-be5d591d2400Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <3.5.0Update to 3.5.0 or newer

All remediation steps
Severity
Critical9.8
CVSS
9.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-502 PHP Object Injection
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

Google Analytics Counter Tracker analytics-counter

  1. Affected< 3.5.0
  2. Patched in3.5.0

Update to 3.5.0 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 3.5.0. Version 3.5.0 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Google Analytics Counter Tracker.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 3.5.0, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Google Analytics Counter Tracker to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Remco Vermeulen.

The Google Analytics Counter Tracker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in versions up to, and including, 3.4.1 via deserialization of untrusted input from the vulnerable wpadm_ga_request cookie parameter. This allows unauthenticated attackers to inject a PHP Object.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

Same weakness (PHP Object Injection)

All PHP Object Injection
Other PHP Object Injection vulnerabilities
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent HeaderCVE-2026-120688
Critical9.8Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form SubmissionCVE-2026-125055
Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' ParameterCVE-2026-119077
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
Customer Reviews for WooCommerce≤5.127.0Update to 5.128.0
CVE-2026-121518

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity critical, CVSS 9.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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