{"id":78465,"date":"2026-05-14T09:46:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-8181-burst-statistics-3-4-0-3-4-1-1-authentication-bypass-to-admin-account-takeover\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:46:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:16:25","slug":"cve-2026-8181-burst-statistics-3-4-0-3-4-1-1-authentication-bypass-to-admin-account-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-8181-burst-statistics-3-4-0-3-4-1-1-authentication-bypass-to-admin-account-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-8181 &#8211; Burst Statistics 3.4.0 &#8211; 3.4.1.1 &#8211; Authentication Bypass to Admin Account Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-8181<\/p>\n<p>  Published : May 14, 2026, 6:16 a.m. | 42\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :The Burst Statistics \u2013 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.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 9.8 | CRITICAL<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-8181 Published : May 14, 2026, 6:16 a.m. | 42\u00a0minutes ago Description :The Burst Statistics \u2013 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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}