CVE-2025-9816 in the critical feed json
WP Statistics <= 14.5.4 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via User-Agent Header
published 2025-09-27 13 mo ago modified 2026-10-09 30 d ago also EUVD-2025-31405
- cvss
- 7.2
- version 3.1, CNA
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 12.1%
- EPSS 12.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
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.
CISA SSVC
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- yes
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- 13 mo ago
Exploit prediction
12.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 3.1 | 7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
Affected products
- veronalabs WP Statistics – Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative
Classification
- Weakness
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- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
- Technology feeds
References
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2025-9816
- NVD CVE-2025-9816
Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.
CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.