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MonsterInsights <= 11.0.0 — Missing Authorization

CVE-2026-11366Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤11.0.0Update to 11.1.0 or newer

All remediation steps
Severity
Medium5.3
CVSS
5.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
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:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-287 Improper Authentication
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (Website Stats Made Easy) google-analytics-for-wordpress

  1. Affected≤ 11.0.0
  2. Patched in11.1.0

Update to 11.1.0 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 11.0.0. Version 11.1.0 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (Website Stats Made Easy).
  • 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 11.1.0, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (Website Stats Made Easy) to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Đặng Tiến Dũng.

The MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (Website Stats Made Easy) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on a function in all versions up to, and including, 11.0.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to forge analytics data.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (Website Stats Made Easy)

All 12
More vulnerabilities in MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (Website Stats Made Easy)
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.1Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sensitive Information Exposure And Plugin Integration Reset
≤10.1.2Update to 10.1.3
CVE-2026-5371
Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤8.21.0Update to 8.22.0
CVE-2023-52220
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤8.14.0Update to 8.14.1
CVE-2023-23999
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤8.12.0Update to 8.12.1
CVE-2023-0081
Medium5.4Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Google Analytics
≤8.9.0Update to 8.9.1
CVE-2022-3904

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 5.3

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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