CVE-2025-3953

WP Statistics – The Most Popular Privacy-Friendly Analytics Plugin <= 14.13.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Plugin Settings Update

mediumMissing Authorization

5.4

CVSS Score

5.4

CVSS Score

medium

Severity

14.13.4

Patched in

332d

Time to patch

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Low

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions<=14.13.3

PublishedApril 29, 2025

Last updatedMarch 27, 2026

Affected pluginwp-statistics

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/07f7ef07-0f14-4b74-8d47-d5dece4954b0?source=api-prod

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