{"id":"CVE-2025-3953","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"WP Statistics – The Most Popular Privacy-Friendly Analytics Plugin <= 14.13.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Plugin Settings Update","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.","publishedAt":"2025-04-30T05:23:09.097Z","updatedAt":"2026-04-08T16:34:06.489Z","severity":{"score":5.4,"label":"Medium","version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N","source":"Wordfence"},"assigner":"Wordfence","products":["veronalabs WP Statistics – Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative"],"affected":[{"vendor":"veronalabs","product":"WP Statistics – Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative","defaultStatus":"unaffected","versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","lessThanOrEqual":"14.13.3","versionType":"semver"}]}],"references":["https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/07f7ef07-0f14-4b74-8d47-d5dece4954b0?source=cve","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-statistics/tags/14.13.2/src/Service/Admin/AjaxOptionUpdater.php#L33","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3283791/"],"weaknesses":["CWE-862"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-29T20:09:09.358Z","source":{"repository":"CVEProject/cvelistV5","path":"cves/2025/3xxx/CVE-2025-3953.json","commit":"556c9d3a8cd17e218bb8e452ba7cd619a384ff47"},"raw":{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2025-3953","state":"PUBLISHED","datePublished":"2025-04-30T05:23:09.097Z","dateUpdated":"2026-04-08T16:34:06.489Z","assignerShortName":"Wordfence","assignerOrgId":"b15e7b5b-3da4-40ae-a43c-f7aa60e62599","dateReserved":"2025-04-25T23:58:05.738Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"title":"WP Statistics – The Most Popular Privacy-Friendly Analytics Plugin <= 14.13.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Plugin Settings Update","descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"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."}],"affected":[{"vendor":"veronalabs","product":"WP Statistics – Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative","defaultStatus":"unaffected","versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","lessThanOrEqual":"14.13.3","versionType":"semver"}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/07f7ef07-0f14-4b74-8d47-d5dece4954b0?source=cve"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-statistics/tags/14.13.2/src/Service/Admin/AjaxOptionUpdater.php#L33"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3283791/"}],"metrics":[{"cvssV3_1":{"version":"3.1","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N","baseScore":5.4,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM"}}],"problemTypes":[{"descriptions":[{"cweId":"CWE-862","lang":"en","description":"CWE-862 Missing Authorization","type":"CWE"}]}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"Wordfence","orgId":"b15e7b5b-3da4-40ae-a43c-f7aa60e62599","dateUpdated":"2026-04-08T16:34:06.489Z"},"credits":[{"lang":"en","type":"finder","value":"Trương Hữu Phúc (truonghuuphuc)"}],"timeline":[{"time":"2026-03-27T10:57:16.000Z","lang":"en","value":"Vendor Notified"},{"time":"2025-04-29T00:00:00.000Z","lang":"en","value":"Disclosed"}]},"adp":[{"title":"CISA ADP Vulnrichment","metrics":[{"other":{"type":"ssvc","content":{"timestamp":"2025-04-30T13:06:20.439617Z","id":"CVE-2025-3953","options":[{"Exploitation":"none"},{"Automatable":"yes"},{"Technical Impact":"partial"}],"role":"CISA Coordinator","version":"2.0.3"}}}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"CISA-ADP","orgId":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0","dateUpdated":"2025-04-30T13:06:49.615Z"}}]}}}