Plugins · animated-number-counters · data as of 2026-11-04
Is Animated Number Counters safe? Known vulnerabilities and latest version
- Latest version
- 3.2
- Last updated
- 2026-10-25
- Active installs
- 2,000+
- Known issues on record
- 4
- Unpatched in latest
- 0
- Tested up to WP
- 7.1.4 · PHP 7.5+
Animated Number Counters is a lightweight, responsive, and mobile-friendly WordPress plugin that boasts extraordinary design. — by wpmart
What to do
- Update to the latest version (3.2). Anything older than 3.1 has at least one known issue listed below. Dashboard → Updates, or Plugins → “update now”.
- If you cannot update right away, deactivate it until you can.
- Turn on auto-updates for it: Plugins → “Enable auto-updates” on its row.
- If you ran a vulnerable version and something looks off (spam pages, strange admins, redirects), run the free scan.
With WP-CLI: wp plugin get animated-number-counters --field=version shows what you run; wp plugin update animated-number-counters updates it.
Check your version
Known vulnerabilities
4 on record, newest first. “Affected” is the version range the source gives; “fixed in” is the version the source names, or (marked *) the first wordpress.org release after the last affected version.
medium 4.9 CVE-2026-15399 · published 2026-10-13
SQL injection in Animated Number Counters (3.0 and older)
- Affected
- 3.0 and older
- Fixed in
- 3.1 *
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- Needs an admin-level account
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Wordfence
Details from the advisory
The Animated Number Counters plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to generic SQL Injection via the 'counterid' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.0 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with editor-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database. This is a second-order SQL injection: the write path correctly uses $wpdb->prepare(), but that protection is not carried forward to the read path, where the retrieved value is concatenated unsanitized into unprepared queries in both a single-quoted string context and a bare numeric context.
NVD CVE-2026-15399Wordfence advisoryCode change (fix)wordpress.orgPlugin source
medium 6.8 CVE-2026-104667 · published 2026-10-07
SQL injection in Animated Number Counters (older than 3.1)
- Affected
- older than 3.1
- Fixed in
- 3.1
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- Needs an admin-level account
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by CISA ADP
Details from the advisory
The Animated Number Counters WordPress plugin before 3.1 does not sanitise or escape a value stored by an Editor-level user before concatenating it into a SQL query that runs when any unauthenticated visitor renders a page containing the counter, leading to second-order SQL injection that can read arbitrary data including password hashes.
high 8.8 CVE-2024-43957 · published 2024-08-29
File inclusion in Animated Number Counters (1.9 and older)
- Affected
- 1.9 and older
- Fixed in
- 2.0 *
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber)
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by NVD
Details from the advisory
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in Sk. Abul Hasan Animated Number Counters allows PHP Local File Inclusion.This issue affects Animated Number Counters: from n/a through 1.9.
medium 5.4 CVE-2023-24393 · published 2023-08-10
Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in Animated Number Counters (1.6 and older)
- Affected
- 1.6 and older
- Fixed in
- 2.0 *
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber); someone on the site has to click a link or open a page
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by NVD
Details from the advisory
Auth. (editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Sk. Abul Hasan Animated Number Counters plugin <= 1.6 versions.
Recent activity
- 2026-10-25 — latest release on wordpress.org (3.2).
- 2026-10-13 — SQL injection disclosed (CVE-2026-15399), fixed in 3.1.
- 2026-10-07 — SQL injection disclosed (CVE-2026-104667), fixed in 3.1.
- 2024-08-29 — File inclusion disclosed (CVE-2024-43957), fixed in 2.0.
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Browse vulnerabilities
- Published this week
- Unpatched in the latest version
- By type of vulnerability
- Plugins by wpmart (2 tracked)
Types found in this plugin: SQL injection (2) · File inclusion (1) · Cross-site scripting (XSS) (1)
Where this data comes from
- Version, last update, installs: wordpress.org/plugins/animated-number-counters (Plugins API), fetched 2026-11-04.
- Vulnerabilities: NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD), checked 2026-11-04. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- Each record links to its CVE page and to the original advisory (Wordfence, Patchstack or WPScan) where there is one. We only list a CVE here when its references or its advisory name this exact plugin, so a few real issues may be missing; none should be about a different plugin. Spot an error? Email Daniel.
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