CVE-2025-3869: 4stats <= 2.0.9 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-05-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The 4stats plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.9. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the stats/stats.php page. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update settings and inject malicious web scripts via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

4stats: through 2.0.9

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/4stats/tags/2.0.9/4stats.php
https://wordpress.org/plugins/4stats/
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/453b246f-7e39-4adb-9506-77d96146ab50?source=cve

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