WordPress plugin · google-analytics-for-wordpress
Is MonsterInsights safe?
Safe on 11.3.0 or newer.
The current version, 11.3.0, is past every affected range on record (7 of 7 records list one). Keep it updated and you’re clear of them.
- Flaws on record
- 7
- High or critical
- 1
- Exploited
- none
- Current version
- 11.3.0
- Last updated
- Sep 16, 2026
- Active installs
- 2,000,000+
Every recorded flaw
- Aug 4, 2026MonsterInsights: Does not correctly validate the signature on one of its unauthenticated AJAX actions:CVE-2026-11366 · fixed in 11.1.0 · reported by WPScanLow 3.7
- May 12, 2026MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (Website Stats Made Easy): Unauthorized access and modification of dataCVE-2026-5371 · affects up to 10.1.2 · reported by WordfenceHigh 7.1
- Apr 25, 2024Google Analytics by Monster Insights: Missing AuthorizationCVE-2023-52220 · affects up to 8.21.0 · reported by PatchstackMedium 4.3
- May 18, 2023Auth.CVE-2023-23999 · fixed in 8.14.1 · reported by PatchstackMedium 6.5
- Feb 6, 2023MonsterInsights: Does not validate and escape some of its block options before outputting them back in a page/post where the block is embedCVE-2023-0081 · fixed in 8.12.1 · reported by WPScanMedium 5.4
- Jan 16, 2023MonsterInsights: Does not sanitize or escape page titles in the top posts/pages sectionCVE-2022-3904 · fixed in 8.9.1 · reported by WPScan1.4% oddsMedium 6.1
- Dec 2, 2014Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Google Analytics by Yoast (google-analytics-for-wordpress) plugin before 5.1.3 for WordPress allows remote attacCVE-2014-9174 · fixed in 5.1.3 · reported by MITRE2.0% oddsMedium 4.3
Records come from the National Vulnerability Database, published by the researchers who found each flaw (Wordfence, Patchstack, WPScan and others); exploited status from CISA; exploit odds from FIRST’s EPSS; current version, installs and closures from wordpress.org, checked daily. Want every plugin on your site checked at once? Run the free website check.
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