Information exposure in Plausible Analytics enables site takeover
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- Information disclosure
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · High · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-201.
Summary
Plausible Analytics Community Edition through 3.2.1 exposes pending invitation and ownership-transfer IDs on its settings/people page. This information exposure (CWE-201) lets a remote attacker with a site editor account read those IDs. The attacker can use an exposed ID to accept an invitation tied to the invitee's email, gaining the invited role or taking site ownership.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-30
Description from the CNA
Plausible Analytics Community Edition through 3.2.1 contains an information exposure vulnerability that allows site editors to obtain pending invitation and ownership-transfer IDs from the settings/people page. Attackers can register with the invitee's email using the exposed ID and accept it, gaining the invited role or taking site ownership.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
The sources list no fixed version for Plausible Analytics.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-30
Timeline
- 2026-10-30 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-119564
- 2026-10-30 Alias added: GHSA-2p4r-4pmj-4wp8
- 2026-10-30 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-10-30 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
References
More Plausible vulnerabilities
- TI-2023-21358 WordPress Plausible Analytics Plugin <= 1.3.3 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
- TI-2026-83029 Mass assignment in Plausible Analytics traffic change notifications CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 5.3
- TI-2022-10728 WordPress Plausible Analytics plugin <= 1.2.2 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.8
Sources
- CVE-2026-119564 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-119564 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-2p4r-4pmj-4wp8 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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