CVEs / CVE-2025-9816

CVE-2025-9816: veronalabs WP Statistics – Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative vulnerability

high 7.2 CVSS 3.1 (from the CNA)
EPSS 12.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
Last changed at its sources 9 Oct 2026

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Description

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.
The CVE record, via NVD · published 27 Sep 2025 · NVD status: Deferred

Affected and fixed versions

As stated by the CVE record (from the CNA)
Product	Affected	Fixed in
veronalabs WP Statistics – Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative	up to and including 14.15.4	—

Exploitation

Not in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as of 6 Nov 2026.

Severity

CVSS 3.1	7.2 high `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N` Scored by the CNA ([email protected])
Weakness	CWE-79

References

Sources

Exploitation status from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. EPSS scores from FIRST. Descriptions, severity and references from the National Vulnerability Database. Open-source package versions from OSV (CC-BY 4.0). Text is shown as each source states it; Stackurity does not edit it. Check the vendor's advisory before acting.

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