piwik-unauthenticated-access: Piwik/Matomo - Unauthenticated Access

2026-04-09 piwik PoC Public

Description

Detected Piwik/Matomo instances exposing analytics data without authentication. When anonymous access was enabled, the API returned visitor statistics, page views, and other sensitive analytics data using the anonymous token.

PoC

id: piwik-unauthenticated-access

info:
  name: Piwik/Matomo - Unauthenticated Access
  author: 0x_Akoko
  severity: high
  description: |
    Detected Piwik/Matomo instances exposing analytics data without authentication. When anonymous access was enabled, the API returned visitor statistics, page views, and other sensitive analytics data using the anonymous token.
  reference:
    - https://developer.matomo.org/api-reference/reporting-api
    - https://matomo.org/faq/general/faq_152/
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 5
    vendor: matomo
    product: matomo
    shodan-query:
      - http.title:"Piwik"
      - http.title:"Matomo"
    fofa-query:
      - title="Piwik"
      - title="Matomo"
  tags: piwik,matomo,unauth,exposure,misconfig,analytics

http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/index.php?module=API&method=VisitsSummary.get&idSite=1&period=day&date=today&format=json&token_auth=anonymous"
      - "{{BaseURL}}/matomo/index.php?module=API&method=VisitsSummary.get&idSite=1&period=day&date=today&format=json&token_auth=anonymous"
      - "{{BaseURL}}/piwik/index.php?module=API&method=VisitsSummary.get&idSite=1&period=day&date=today&format=json&token_auth=anonymous"
      - "{{BaseURL}}/index.php?module=API&method=SitesManager.getAllSites&format=json&token_auth=anonymous"
      - "{{BaseURL}}/matomo/index.php?module=API&method=SitesManager.getAllSites&format=json&token_auth=anonymous"

    stop-at-first-match: true
    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - "nb_visits"
          - "nb_uniq_visitors"
          - "nb_actions"
          - "idsite"
          - "main_url"
        condition: or

      - type: word
        part: content_type
        words:
          - "application/json"

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
# digest: 490a004630440220547f37a63db550d3d7dae32f9f8986b6125f275f2d4e0e0d701db25d1bad4c75022077f93b4c8ad0923afb3cfaabbffc97ad80847f5d6caf067170e7f3fb4517cf0b:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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