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

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-3953
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published April 29, 2025
Last Updated April 30, 2025
Researcher Trương Hữu Phúc (truonghuuphuc)
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-statistics (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 14.13.3
Patched Version
  • 14.13.4
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