CVE-2025-9816 (GCVE-0-2025-9816)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-27 04:26 – Updated: 2025-09-29 13:50
VLAI?
Summary
The WP Statistics – The Most Popular Privacy-Friendly Analytics Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the User-Agent Header in all versions up to, and including, 14.5.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Severity ?
7.2 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
veronalabs WP Statistics – Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative Affected: * , ≤ 14.15.4 (semver)
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Credits
Dmitrii Ignatyev
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