{"id":237176,"date":"2026-05-14T22:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/hackers-exploit-auth-bypass-flaw-in-burst-statistics-wordpress-plugin"},"modified":"2026-05-14T22:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:23:07","slug":"hackers-exploit-auth-bypass-flaw-in-burst-statistics-wordpress-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/hackers-exploit-auth-bypass-flaw-in-burst-statistics-wordpress-plugin","title":{"rendered":"Hackers exploit auth bypass flaw in Burst Statistics WordPress plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-exploit-auth-bypass-flaw-in-burst-statistics-wordpress-plugin.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hackers are leveraging a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Burst Statistics to obtain admin-level access to websites.<\/p>\n<p>Burst Statistics is a privacy-focused analytics plugin active on 200,000 WordPress sites and marketed as a lightweight alternative to Google Analytics.<\/p>\n<p>The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026\u20138181, was introduced on April 23 with the release of version 3.4.0 of the plugin. The vulnerable code was also present in the following iteration, version 3.4.1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers are leveraging a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Burst Statistics to obtain admin-level access to websites. Burst Statistics is a privacy-focused analytics plugin active on 200,000 WordPress sites and marketed as a lightweight alternative to Google Analytics. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026\u20138181, was introduced on April 23 with the release of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}