The MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (Website Stats Made Easy) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access and modification of data due to a missing capability checks on the get_ads_access_token() and reset_experience() functions in all versions up to, and including, 10.1.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to retrieve live Google OAuth access tokens and reset Plugins's Google Ads integration.
MonsterInsights <= 10.1.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sensitive Information Exposure And Plugin Integration Reset
Problem type
Affected products
chriscct7
<= 10.1.2 - AFFECTED
References
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5d380b66-675e-451d-a7e3-4efe1fbd08b2?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/google-analytics-for-wordpress/tags/10.0.3/includes/admin/admin-assets.php#L205
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/google-analytics-for-wordpress/tags/10.0.3/includes/ppc/google/class-monsterinsights-google-ads.php#L167
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/google-analytics-for-wordpress/tags/10.0.3/includes/ppc/google/class-monsterinsights-google-ads.php#L243
GitHub Security Advisories
GHSA-wx44-v3qh-c2jf
The MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (Website Stats Made Easy) plugin...
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wx44-v3qh-c2jfThe MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (Website Stats Made Easy) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access and modification of data due to a missing capability checks on the get_ads_access_token() and reset_experience() functions in all versions up to, and including, 10.1.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to retrieve live Google OAuth access tokens and reset Plugins's Google Ads integration.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-5371
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/google-analytics-for-wordpress/tags/10.0.3/includes/admin/admin-assets.php#L205
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/google-analytics-for-wordpress/tags/10.0.3/includes/ppc/google/class-monsterinsights-google-ads.php#L167
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/google-analytics-for-wordpress/tags/10.0.3/includes/ppc/google/class-monsterinsights-google-ads.php#L243
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5d380b66-675e-451d-a7e3-4efe1fbd08b2?source=cve
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wx44-v3qh-c2jf
JSON source
https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2026-5371Click to expand
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