WP Statistics – The Most Popular Privacy-Friendly Analytics Plugin: A security weakness
WP Statistics – The Most Popular Privacy-Friendly Analytics Plugin is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- WP Statistics – The Most Popular Privacy-Friendly Analytics Plugin
- Plugin slug
wp-statistics- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Apr 30, 2025
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Apr 30, 2025 and is one of 27 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update WP Statistics – The Most Popular Privacy-Friendly Analytics Plugin to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical 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.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N