Skip to content
OpenAdvisories
High · 7.2 Public exploit CVE-2025-9816 EUVD-2025-31405GHSA-v8h5-jm3h-5252

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

Published Sep 27, 2025 · Updated Apr 8, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

Vendor: VeronaLabs Product: WP Statistics – Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative Category: Web / CMS

Description

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 products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
veronalabs WP Statistics – Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative ≤ 14.15.4 —

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

GitHub 1 repository

  • monzaviman/CVE-2025-9816 ★ 0 · Nov 13, 2025

    Proof of Concept for Stored-XSS on Vulnerable WP-Statistics Plugin known as CVE-2025-9816

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

References