Description

The WP Statistics – The Most Popular Privacy-Friendly Analytics Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'optionUpdater' function in all versions up to, and including, 14.13.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary plugin settings.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-3953

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 6.5

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected Products

Vendor: veronalabs

Product: WP Statistics – The Most Popular Privacy-Friendly Analytics Plugin

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 8.67% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-05-29 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-3953
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/07f7ef07-0f14-4b74-8d47-d5dece4954b0?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-statistics/tags/14.13.2/src/Service/Admin/AjaxOptionUpdater.php#L33
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3283791/

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