CVE-2015-5533
SQL injection vulnerability in counter-options.php in the Count Per Day plugin before 3.4.1 for WordPress allows remote authenticated…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 7.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
SQL injection vulnerability in counter-options.php in the Count Per Day plugin before 3.4.1 for WordPress allows remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the cpd_keep_month parameter to wp-admin/options-general.php. NOTE: this can be leveraged using CSRF to allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- WordPress Plugin Count Per Day 3.4 - SQL Injection (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 37707webapps, phppublished 27 Jul 2015Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 37707 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
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- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.2% · top 5.7% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23267 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132811/WordPress-Count-Per-Day-3.4-SQL-Injection.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1190683/count-per-day (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 37707 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8110 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20150722 SQL Injection in Count Per Day WordPress Plugin (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-5487 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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