CVE-2026-5488: Smub Exactmetrics – Google Analytics Dashboard For WordPress Website Stats Plugin

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ExactMetrics – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in versions up to and including 9.1.2. This is due to missing capability checks in the get_ads_access_token() and reset_experience() AJAX handlers. While the mi-admin-nonce is localized on all admin pages (including profile.php which subscribers can access), and while other similar AJAX endpoints in the same class properly check for the exactmetrics_save_settings capability, these two endpoints only verify the nonce. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to retrieve valid Google Ads access tokens and reset Google Ads integration settings.

Affected products

• Smub Exactmetrics – Google Analytics Dashboard For WordPress Website Stats Plugin: up to and including 9.1.2

Published 2026-04-24. Last modified 2026-08-14.