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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-04-25 | Published 2025-04-30 | Updated 2026-04-08 | Assigner Wordfence




MEDIUM: 5.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Problem types

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Any version
affected

Timeline

2026-03-27:Vendor Notified
2025-04-29:Disclosed

Credits

Trương Hữu Phúc (truonghuuphuc) finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-0f14-4b74-8d47-d5dece4954b0?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...ce/Admin/AjaxOptionUpdater.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3283791/

cve.org (CVE-2025-3953)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-3953)

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