CVE-2025-3953: WP Statistics – The Most Popular Privacy-Friendly Analytics Plugin <= 14.13.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Plugin Settings Update

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 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: 2025-04-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-862

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.

Affected products

WP Statistics: through 14.13.3

References

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

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