Medium severity4.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 14, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-41836
CVE-2021-41836
Description
The Fathom Analytics WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient input validation and escaping via the $site_id parameter found in the ~/fathom-analytics.php file which allowed attackers with administrative user access to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 3.0.4. This affects multi-site installations where unfiltered_html is disabled for administrators, and sites where unfiltered_html is disabled.
Affected products
2- Range: <=3.0.4
- Fathom Analytics/Fathom Analyticsv5Range: 3.0.4
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/nvdThird Party Advisory
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