CVE-2025-9816

WP Statistics <= 14.5.4 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via User-Agent Header

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.

Affected

veronalabs · WP Statistics – Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative

CVSS v3.1 WORDFENCE

7.2 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS

10.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 96th percentile

Published

2025-09-27

Updated

2026-04-08

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• monzaviman/CVE-2025-98160★ · 2025-11-13

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2022-36446
• CVE-2025-62168