CVE-2025-9816
WP Statistics <= 14.5.4 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via User-Agent Header
- Published
- Sep 27, 2025
- Updated
- Apr 8, 2026
- Assigning CNA
- Wordfence
- Evidence observed
- Aug 8, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 95.3%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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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.
Sources
1Proof of Concept for Stored-XSS on Vulnerable WP-Statistics Plugin known as CVE-2025-9816
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